George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
george.h.diller@nasa.gov

STATUS REPORT: ELV-060109

EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT

Mission: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/Lunar Crater Observation and
Sensing Satellite (LRO/LCROSS)
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V
Launch Pad: Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Launch Date: June 17, 2009
Launch Time: 3:51 p.m. EDT

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. The lift was completed and LRO/LCROSS
is attached to the Atlas booster.

Preparations were under way Friday for an integrated systems test
scheduled to occur today. It is the major test performed after the
spacecraft are mated to the Atlas V launch vehicle.



Mission: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-O)
Launch Vehicle: Delta IV
Launch Pad: Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Launch Date: No Earlier Than June 26, 2009
Launch Window: TBD

At Launch Complex 37, Delta IV checkout and launch preparations
continue. Tanker trucks delivered liquid hydrogen to storage tanks at
the pad in preparation for launch.

The redesign of the linear shape charge, part of the launch vehicle
flight termination system, is making good progress.

A partial tanking test to verify launch vehicle instrumentation will
be performed today.

At the Astrotech Space Operations Facility, the GOES-O spacecraft is
enclosed in the payload fairing. There is a cool dry purge within the
fairing, and the spacecraft remains in a good state of health. A
charge is also being maintained on the batteries. GOES-O will depart
from Astrotech for Launch Complex 37 on June 7 and will be mated with
the Delta IV rocket on June 8.

NASA has contracted with Boeing to build and launch the GOES-O
spacecraft. The NASA Launch Services Program at Kennedy is supporting
the launch in an advisory role. NASA spacecraft project management
for GOES-O is the responsibility of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center. After launch, once Boeing and NASA have completed on-orbit
checkout and the spacecraft is operational, it will be turned over to
NOAA.



Previous status reports are available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/index.html