| Date: | 2009-07-08 23:39:00 | |
| Sender: | Jan McGarry/NASA GSFC <Carey Noll <carey.e.noll@nasa.gov>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1779: Successful Laser Ranging to LRO | |
| Author: | Jan McGarry | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2009-07-08 23:39:00 UTC Message No. 1779 ******************************************************************************** Author: Jan McGarry/NASA GSFC Subject: Successful Laser Ranging to LRO NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was launched on June 18 and achieved its commissioning orbit around the Moon on June 23. The GSFC NGSLR successfully ranged to LRO on its first attempt on June 30 at 21:10 UTC. The ranging was strong with LOLA seeing 20+ (out of a possible 28) returns per second throughout most of the hour long pass. Since that initial pass, NGSLR has had several successful ranges to SLR. McDonald Laser Ranging System (MLRS) at the University of Texas successfully ranged to LRO on their first attempt on July 2nd. Other approved sites will begin ranging to LRO soon. Congratulations to the entire LRO-LR team! ------------------------------------------- Jan McGarry code 694 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA +1-301-614-5867 ------------------------------------------- From: Carey Noll ******************************************************************************** |