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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 9/1/00 10:30am EDT
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
The observatory passed through the first Earth eclipse of the Fall 2000 season at 11:04pm EDT on 30 Aug (55.5 min) with nominal power and thermal performance. The second eclipse will occur at 2:26pm EDT on 2 Sept (76.0 min), the third at 5:56pm EDT on 5 Sept (84.1 min) and the fourth at 9:30pm EDT on 7 Sept.
A real-time procedure was run on 30 Aug to perform a routine EIA Sequencer self-check.
The planned observations for the coming week are as follows.
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3C 58 ACIS-S Sep 4
AX J0223+4212 ACIS-I
A773 ACIS-I
Eclipse-3 84.1 min
Radiation Belt Sep 5
A586 ACIS-I
2A 0335+096 ACIS-S
CL 0024+17 ACIS-S Sep 6
Einstein Cross ACIS-S
SBS 0335-052 ACIS-I
Eclipse-4 84.5 min
Radiation Belt Sep 7
1H 0253+193 ACIS-S Sep 8
A383 ACIS-I
CL J0152.7-1357 ACIS-I
A209 ACIS-I Sep 9
A3667 ACIS-I
R Aquarii ACIS-S Sep 10
Radiation Belt
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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