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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 31 May 2002, 5.00pm EDT

During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.

Preparations are complete for the Jun 2-6 American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Albuquerque, NM, where a Chandra press conference and two press releases are planned.

The observing schedule for the next week is shown below and includes a continuation of the long observation of Sgr A* and an observation of M31 coordinated with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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M31                     ACIS-I       Jun 2
Sgr A*                  ACIS-I
3C273                   ACIS-S/LETG  Jun 3
Radiation Belts                      Jun 4
3C273 (3 obs)           ACIS-S/HETG
NGC 5044                ACIS-S/HETG  Jun 5
Radiation Belts                      Jun 6
NGC 5044                ACIS-S/HETG  Jun 7
Quest 1220-0025         ACIS-S       Jun 8
M87                     ACIS-S
NGC 4136 X-1            ACIS-S
Field-142549+353248     ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.

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