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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 8/31/01 5.30pm EDT
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
Chandra passed through the remaining three eclipses of the Fall 2001 season with nominal power and thermal performance. One real-time procedure was completed to switch to the B-side Solid State Recorder (SSR-B) to minimize data loss following a technical problem in receiving dump data. A K-constant patch is being developed to recover further data from SSR-A.
Of note next week is the Two Years of Science with Chandra Symposium to be held in Washington DC during September 5-7. Topics will cover a broad range of Chandra science and include a presentation by NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, Ed Weiler, on Future NASA and Astronomy Missions. Two press conferences are planned during the Symposium including one that will be broadcast on NASA TV at 4pm EDT on Wednesday September 5.
The schedule of observations for the coming week is shown below.
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Radiation Belts Sep 2
A2744 ACIS-S
A2550 ACIS-S Sep 3
LBQS 2154-2005 ACIS-S Sep 4
XTE J1723-376 ACIS-I
NGC 5135 ACIS-S
NGC 5236 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts Sep 5
SDSS1621-0042 ACIS-S
RXJ1416.4+2315 ACIS-S
RXJ 1532.9+3021 ACIS-I
B2 1621+38 ACIS-S
3C397 ACIS-S Sep 6
NGC 6946 ACIS-S
1RXSJ1450+6559 HRC-S Sep 7
1RXSJ1639+5656 HRC-S
Radiation Belts Sep 8
M31 (5 obs) HRC-I
NGC 3556 ACIS-S
NGC 4125 ACIS-S Sep 9
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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