"Successful Spacecraft Separation
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:34:16 PM PDT

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage and Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, spacecraft at 6:16:43 p.m. EDT.

The official transfer of control from the Centaur rocket to LCROSS is expected about 9:30 p.m.

LRO will reach the moon on Tuesday at 5:43 a.m.

LCROSS and the Centaur rocket will stay attached for the next four months. They will then separate and be directed to impact the moon on Oct. 9, UTC."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html

"I've waited way too long to find out if there's ice in those craters. It's been what, ten years since Lunar Prospector? Any idea how long before we start getting results?"

So, we will get initial results around Oct 9 from the impactor.

And we probably get some pictures and testing results from LRO next week.

I would guess we also probably get some results published from the India lunar mission sometime within next few weeks. This timing could related to PR reasons, and competitive and cooperative factors.