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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 19 Sep 2003, 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
Real-time procedures were completed on 12 Sept to swap back from
SSR-B to SSR-A after a DSN outage led to two missed passes and an
autonomous switch to SSR-B. JPL resolved the problem and all data
were recovered during the following pass. A real-time procedure
was completed on Feb17 to update the on-board ephemeris.
The 4 Years of Chandra Observations, A Tribute to Riccardo Giacconi
Symposium was held in Huntsville Sept 16-18. In addition to the
excellent science program, highlights included Dr. Giacconi's address
and a visit by STS-93 crew Cady Coleman and Jeff Ashby.
Two press releases were issued in conjunction with the Symposium.
The releases titled 'Luna Prospecting with Chandra' and '"Iron-Clad"
evidence For Spinning Black Hole' can be found at:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/03_releases/press_091603.html
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/03_releases/press_091703.html
The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes
a
calibration observation of Capella coordinated with XMM-Newton.
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44I BOO HRC-S/LETG Sep 21
NGC 5204 X-1 ACIS-S Sep 23
HR 6200 HRC-I
Radiation Belts
NGC 7619 ACIS-S Sep 24
CL1641+4001 ACIS-I
4U 1323-619 ACIS-S/HETG Sep 25
4U1755-33 ACIS-S
V4743 Sgr HRC-S/LETG
Radiation Belts
Crab Pulsar HRC-S/LETG Sep 26
Eta Carinae ACIS-S/HETG
Capella ACIS-S/HETG Sep 27
Capella HRC-S/LETG Sep 28
B2 1615+35 ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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