NASA Internal Memo: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Launch Date Change

From: Tooley, Craig R. (GSFC-451.0)
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:21 AM
To: [DELETED]
Subject: LRO Launch Date Change

TWIMC:

As of this morning LRO was notified that problems with the WSG spacecraft have made it impossible for ULA to launch LRO/LROCSS on 4/24/2009. The next set of LRO/LCROSS launch days opens on 5/7/2009. Both LRO and ULA are replanning for 5/7/2009 as of this morning.

Please note that this is unrelated to the booster tank issues and that there are still unresolved issue with a west coast Delta launch (STSS) that is scheduled for 5/5 and will have to move to late May to enable ULA/KSC to launch LRO/LCROSS on 5/7. The current thinking is this will be arranged but is not yet confirmed.

The details of our replanned schedule, and any changes to planned activities, are not yet sorted out. Once we have the new ULA integration schedule (expected today) we’ll replan the details of the LRO schedule and send it to all involved.

CRAIG TOOLEY-LRO Project Manager
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA-GSFC-451