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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 2 October 2026 9.00am EDT

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

A Chandra image release was issued on September 30 describing observations of Sagittarius A East. The supernova remnant, Sgr A East, is the closest remnant to Sgr A* that astronomers know about. Using a new technique, the new composite image of Sgr A East and the region around it contains X-rays from Chandra that are not contaminated by X-rays from other sources in this crowded field. For details, see https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/sgrae/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.



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        Radiation Belts                     Oct  4
        Hoinga                 ACIS-I       Oct  5
        SNR1987A               HRC-I /LETG
        BOSS0210E              ACIS-I
        Kes73                  ACIS-S
        SNR1987A               HRC-I /LETG  Oct  6
        BOSS0210E              ACIS-I
        2RXSJ052437.3-08420    ACIS-S
        SNR1987A               HRC-I /LETG
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct  7
        Hoinga                 ACIS-I
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        AM0126-525             ACIS-S       Oct  8
        SNR1987A               HRC-I /LETG
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        Abell2108              ACIS-I
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        SDSSJ082540.44+1846    ACIS-S       Oct  9
        NGC424                 ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 10
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        SDSSJ082540.44+1846    ACIS-S
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        SDSSJ082540.44+1846    ACIS-S
        ACT-CLJ0811.3+0035     ACIS-S       Oct 11
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        NGC4051                ACIS-S/HETG
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC-S continued to support nominal operations.

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