Friday 23 October 2009 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
A real-time procedure was executed on Oct 16 to clear the EPS fetch-and-validate glitch counter. A second real-time procedure was conducted on Oct 16 to perform a diagnostic dump of the Central Processing Electronics (CPE). A Chandra press release was issued on Oct 22 describing the most distant galaxy cluster that has yet been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes. The galaxy cluster, known as JKCS041, is located about 10.2 billion light years away, and is observed as it was when the Universe was only about a quarter of its present age. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/09_releases/press_102209.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below |
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Radiation Belts Oct 25
CPPuppis ACIS-S/HETG Oct 26
SDSSJ085312.3+162619 ACIS-S
LATPSRJ0357+32 ACIS-S
ISCS1030 ACIS-I
HD9826 ACIS-S Oct 27
1641+399 ACIS-S
GX5-1 ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belts Oct 28
CPPuppis ACIS-S/HETG
J0417.5-1154 ACIS-I
HD9826 ACIS-S Oct 29
J0417.5-1154 ACIS-I
LS5039 ACIS-I Oct 30
SBS1415+437 ACIS-S
A1246 ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
CPPuppis ACIS-S/HETG Oct 31
1641+399 ACIS-S
ISCS1025 ACIS-I
Mkn421 ACIS-S/LETG Nov 1
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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