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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 2/23/01 10.30am EST
During last week the observing schedule was replanned to include the
Gamma Ray Burster GRB010214 which was accepted as a Target Of
Opportunity (TOO) on 22 Feb following its detection by the Beppo SAX
mission. A very fast response was possible for this TOO due to good
mission planning and a favorable combination of the timing of the
trigger, pass times and the load configuration. The TOO was triggered
at 6.30am EST and the maneuver to the target was made at 5pm EST.
Chandra continued through the Spring 2001 eclipse season with nominal
power and thermal performance.
Real-time procedures were completed last week on 16 Feb to conduct an
ACIS Squeegee test, on 17 Feb to uplink the medium Earth eclipse patch
and also on 17 Feb to retract the LETG. All procedures were completed
as planned.
The replanned schedule including the TOO and the observations for the
coming week shown below. The portion of the Hubble Deep Field North
observation that was impacted by the TOO is expected to be added to a
planned observation of the same target scheduled for next week.
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HDF-N (interrupted) ACIS-I Feb 21
TOO GRB010214 ACIS-S Feb 22
HDF-N (resumed) ACIS-I
Radiation Belt Feb 24
NGC 3783 ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belt Feb 26
NGC 3783 ACIS-S/HETG Feb 27
Radiation Belt Mar 1
HDF-N ACIS-I
Radiation Belt Mar 3
Coma HRC-I Mar 4
NGC2516 HRC-I Mar 5
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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