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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday Friday 3/16/01 9.00am EST
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
Real-time procedures were completed on 10 March to uplink the medium
eclipse patch to configure the electrical power system for the period
between eclipse seasons, and on 13 March to test a new version of
software used to interface with the NASA communications network. A
routine Ephemeris update was completed on 14 March.
Of note last week was the Chandra Cycle 3 Proposal deadline at
midnight on March 15. Over 700 proposals were received requesting a
total in excess of 150 million seconds, or approximately a factor of 8
oversubscription in observing time.
A press release was issued on March 13 describing results from over a
million seconds of observation of the Chandra Deep Field South. The
announcement describes an early universe "teeming" with black holes
and has generated significant interest from the press. See
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/ for details.
The planned observations for the coming week are shown below and
include a coordinated observation of GRS1915+105 with the RXTE mission
on 24 March. Real-time procedures will be conducted on March 18 and 21
to insert and retract the LETG.
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HZ43 HRC-S/LETG Mar 18
EK DRA HRC-S/LETG
Radiation Belt Mar 19
1ES1927+654 HRC-S/LETG Mar 20
Epsilon Eri HRC-S/LETG Mar 21
Radiation Belt Mar 22
HE 2-10 ACIS-S Mar 23
NGC3226 ACIS-S
3C303 ACIS-S
1510-089 ACIS-S
AQL X-1 ACIS-S
LBQS 1443+0141 ACIS-S
PC 1247+3406 ACIS-S
NGC4548 ACIS-S
NGC4550 ACIS-S
1RXSJ1229+1816 HRC-S Mar 24
1RXSJ1452+3235 HRC-S
1RXSJ1328-3654 HRC-S
GRS 1758-258 HRC-S
GRS 1758-258 ACIS-S/HETG
GRS 1915+105 ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belt Mar 25
Hydra A ACIS-S/HETG
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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