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06.23.09 - At Complex 41 on June 18, LRO/LCROSS was launched successfully by the Atlas V rocket. Liftoff was at 5:32:00.1 p.m. EDT.
06.12.09 - The Flight Readiness Review for LRO/LCROSS was held on June 10, and at its conclusion, there were no issues or concerns which would preclude a launch next week on June 17.
06.05.09 - At Launch Complex 41 on June 1, the integrated systems test, an electrical test between the LRO/LCROSS spacecraft and the Atlas V launch vehicle, was completed successfully.
06.01.09 - Early Thursday morning, the United Launch Alliance team transported the LRO/LCROSS spacecraft from the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., to the Atlas vertical integration facility at Launch Complex 41.
05.22.09 - In preparation for the LRO/LCROSS launch at Launch Complex 41, the Atlas V launch vehicle wet dress was successfully completed on May 15.
05.15.09 - NASA decided to move the LRO/LCROSS from a June 2 window to a June 17 window so as to allow the LCROSS team additional time to mitigate a potential thrust disturbance associated with the Atlas V Centaur fill/drain valves.
05.08.09 - The GOES-O launch aboard a Delta IV rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 currently is scheduled for no earlier than June 26.
05.01.09 - At the Astrotech Space Operations Facility, the GOES-O spacecraft is enclosed in the payload fairing. The spacecraft remains in excellent health and is ready to be moved to the launch pad once a launch date has been determined.
04.24.09 - The GOES-O launch aboard a Delta IV rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 currently is scheduled for no earlier than May 20.
04.17.09 - Processing continues at Launch Complex 37 for the GOES-O launch. Troubleshooting on the Delta IV rocket after last week's wet dress rehearsal and tanking test revealed a leak in a fitting in the first stage liquid oxygen vent system.
04.10.09 - At Launch Complex 37, the Delta IV "wet dress rehearsal," a countdown dress rehearsal with the rocket fully fueled, was conducted on April 8 in preparations to launch the GOES-O spacecraft.
04.03.09 - A partial charging of the GOES-O spacecraft batteries has been performed and a power command functional test of the spacecraft power subsystem has been successfully completed.
03.27.09 - The GOES-O spacecraft was placed on a special stand on March 22 for propellant functional testing and fueling preparations. A second check with the Delta IV payload attach fitting is planned for March 28.
03.24.09 - Preparations to prepare the GOES-O weather satellite for launch are going well and are on schedule. Closeouts of the imager, sounder and spacecraft optics were finished last week as planned.
03.13.09 - The Kepler telescope was launched on March 6, 2009, at 10:49:57.465 p.m. EST. The spacecraft was acquired by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone tracking station in California at 12:11 a.m. on March 7.
02.27.09 - Engineers are reviewing hardware on the Taurus launch vehicle for commonality with the Delta II rocket carrying the Kepler telescope.
02.20.09 - At the launch pad on Feb. 18, the Taurus XL launch vehicle upper stack, consisting of stages 1, 2 and 3 with the encapsulated Orbiting Carbon Observatory spacecraft, was hoisted atop Stage 0.
02.16.09 - The launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory has been rescheduled by one day to Feb. 24.
02.06.09 - The United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket carrying the NOAA-N Prime weather satellite launched at 2:22 a.m. PST after two consecutive days of launch scrubs.
01.30.09 - The Flight Readiness Review for the Delta II and NOAA-N Prime was successfully completed Jan. 29.
01.23.09 - The Flight Program Verification, an integrated test of the Delta II and NOAA-N Prime, was successfully completed Jan. 22.
01.16.09 - In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft was transported from the Building 1610 payload processing facility to Space Launch Complex 2.
01.06.09 - Testing has been successfully completed on the solar array harness of NOAA-N Prime. Though no fault indications in the harness were found, two wires were disconnected to remove a possible "sneak circuit" electrical path.