Assembly of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
The LRO spacecraft was built by engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The following videos record the complex assembly process of the satellite.
A 30 Foot Cable for Laser Ranging
This fiber optic cable attaches to the back of the Laser Ranging Telescope at the end of the High Gain Antenna boom. It actually has three segments that connect to each other. The first two segments are used to transfer the lights from the back of the telescope to the bottom of the boom. The third segment is used to transfer the light from the bottom of the boom to the LOLA instrument. This cable was carefully handmade at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
A computer assists engineers who are welding together parts of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) during the summer of 2008 at Goddard Space Flight Center.
Like human arteries and veins, the flight harness is crucial to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. They were built, tested, and integrated at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
It takes careful planning and strong teamwork to begin pulling all the LRO puzzle pieces together. This occured in the summer of 2008 at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Engineers installed the "reaction wheels" during the build-up of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in the clean room affectionately known as the "White House" at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The star tracker guidance instruments were integrated on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in the "White House" clean room during the summer of 2008 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
