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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 9/7/01 10.30am EDT
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
A real-time procedure was completed on Sep 4 to turn off the B-side Solid State Recorder and return to operations with the A-side recorder. The switch had been made last week to avoid data loss following technical problems in receiving data from DSN. Approximately 3 hours of data thought lost was fully recovered after some good work by the OCC and JPL teams.
The 2 Years of Science with Chandra Symposium was held in Washington DC during Sept 5-7. The Symposium papers displayed a remarkable range of science enabled by the superb imaging and spectroscopic capabilities of Chandra.
A total of 8 press releases were made during the last week, including two press conferences with one televised. Details of the discoveries and images can be found at http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/. MSFC also announced on Sep 4 that NASA HQ has formally extended the Chandra mission from the baseline 5 year to a 10 year mission. An exciting week!
The schedule of observations for the coming week is shown below and includes an observation of Fairall 9 coordinated with RXTE.
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IC4296 ACIS-S Sep 9
SAX J1324.5-6313 ACIS-S Sep 10
Radiation Belts
1RXSJ104047.4-704713 ACIS-I Sep 10
NGC 55 ACIS-I Sep 11
Fairall 9 ACIS-S/HETG
NGC6624 ACIS-S/HETG Sep 12
Radiation Belts Sep 13
Proxima Centauri ACIS-S/HETG
1E1740.7-2942 ACIS-S/HETG Sep 14
A3112 ACIS-S
AGX J045301-5304 ACIS-I Sep 15
N49B ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
0548-70.4 ACIS-S Sep 16
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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