LRO Enters Lunar Orbit (full live event)

  • Released Tuesday, June 23, 2009

This entry is the full one hour program that was produced live during the orbit insertion event. To see just a short portion of highlights from the event, see entry #10445

This video is a live program that aired during the crucial thruster burns which put the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter officially into lunar orbit. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23, 2009.



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This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.


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