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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 3 April 2020 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Apr 1 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

Of note this week were the Chandra Quarterly Review conducted on Apr 1 by teleconference and the Chandra Cycle 22 proposal deadline on Apr 2 at 6pm EDT.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of PKS0620-52, which was accepted as Target of Opportunity on Feb 5.



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        CIZAJ0107.7+5408       ACIS-I       Apr  6
        Radiation Belts
        PKS0620-52             ACIS-I
        CIZAJ0107.7+5408       ACIS-I       Apr  7
        JWST-DTDF-9            ACIS-I
        HD114174               HRC-I
        JWST-DTDF-9            ACIS-I       Apr  8
        SPT-CLJ1315-2806       ACIS-I
        SDSSJ1346+5858         ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Apr  9
        NGC4472ULXs            ACIS-S
        H1821+643              ACIS-S
        Spiderweb              ACIS-S       Apr 10
        H1821+643              ACIS-S
        SPT-CLJ1315-2806       ACIS-I       Apr 11
        SNR0509-67.5           ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Apr 12
        SPT-CLJ1315-2806       ACIS-I
        KIC11606854            ACIS-S
        Spiderweb              ACIS-S       Apr 13

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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