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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 4 October 2002, 10.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
A Chandra press release was issued on Oct 3 as a NASA HQ Space Science update. The SSU described observations that for the first time track the time evolution (life cycle) of a jet emitted from a stellar-scale black hole. For details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_100302.html
Of note last week was the approval of a waiver to the 20 degree bright Earth limb limitation for two upcoming ACA tests. During the tests stars will be acquired from normal pointing mode at 10 degrees from the bright earth limb. The tests are the last of a series that are expected to lead to a reduction in the limitation aimed at increasing in scheduling flexibility.
The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes two observations of 47 Tuc coordinated with the Hubble Space Telescope, and an observation of GX 13+1 coordinated with RXTE.
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Radiation Belts Oct 7
3C 28.0 ACIS-I
A2409 ACIS-I
MACSJ2211.7-0349 ACIS-I Oct 8
GX 13+1 ACIS-S/HETG
Q1829+290 ACIS-S
AX J1531.8+2414 ACIS-S
AX J1617.0+3506 ACIS-S
SDSS102332+633508 ACIS-S
PSS0808+5215 ACIS-S
NGC2146 ACIS-S Oct 9
Beta Pic ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
PKS 0458-020 ACIS-S
47 Tucanae (2 obs) ACIS-S Oct 10
Q2127+040 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
W28 ACIS-S Oct 12
NGC 1313 ACIS-S Oct 13
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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