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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 2/16/01 11.00am EST
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
Chandra passed through the first 3 eclipses of the Spring 2001 season with nominal power and thermal performance. All three eclipses were classed as short eclipses (<40 minutes in duration). A software patch to configure for the upcoming medium eclipses will be uplinked on 2/17.
Real-time procedures completed last week included the insertion of the LETG on 2/14 and the re-dumping of SSR-A following a switch over to SSR-B after the recorder filled up due to station problems on 2 sequential passes. All data have been retrieved and the standard dump pattern has been restored. In addition, a check was performed of the CPE warm-start count that showed the value remained at 1.
The planned observations for the coming week are shown below and include observations of the Crab Nebula and NGC 3783 coordinated with the Hubble Space Telescope and two long observations of the Hubble Deep Field North totaling 250 ks.
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Radiation Belt Feb 18
Aql X-1 ACIS-S Feb 19
HDF-N ACIS-I
Crab Nebula ACIS-S Feb 20
Radiation Belt Feb 21
HDF-N ACIS-I Feb 21
Radiation Belt Feb 24
NGC 3783 ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belt Feb 26
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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