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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 28 March 2003, 8.30am EST
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
Preparations were completed for performing a manual momentum dump
using thruster A-1 (at 100%), A2 and A3 on 30 March. A flight software
patch has been prepared to provide high rate telemetry of the bus
current during the unload to help discriminate between specific fault
cases (VDE vs thruster).
A Chandra press release was issued on 24 March that announced the use
of Chandra to confirm a connection between a gamma-ray burst and
Supernova explosion. For details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/03_releases/press_032403.html
The observing schedule for next week is shown below and is largely
devoted to a raster of over 60 observations of an NOAO field.
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NOAO Field (22 Obs) ACIS-I Mar 31
Radiation Belts Apr 1
NOAO Field (30 Obs) ACIS-I Apr 2
Radiation Belts Apr 4
NOAO Filed (12 Obs) ACIS-I Apr 5
A1118-616 ACIS-S Apr 5
PSR J1016-5857 ACIS-S Apr 6
HD110073 ACIS-I Apr 6
UN J1141-0143 ACIS-S Apr 6
Abell 1201 ACIS-S Apr 6
LNS 3 ACIS-S Apr 7
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All spacecraft subsystems, with the exception of MUPS thruster A-1 as
noted above, continued to operate nominally.
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