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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 13 August 2021 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Aug 8 in preparation for a 48-minute-long, penumbral Lunar eclipse on Aug 9: one to activate SCS 29 and one to dump the EPS glitch counters. Chandra passed through the eclipse with nominal power and thermal performance. Real-time procedures were executed following the eclipse on Aug 9 to disable SCS29 and to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Swift J1818.0-1607, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Jul 26.



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        4U1916-053             ACIS-S/HETG  Aug 15
        SNR0519-69.0           ACIS-S       Aug 16
        Radiation Belts                     Aug 17
        Collinder197           ACIS-I
        2MASXJ22140917-25574   ACIS-S
        PSRJ0821-4300          HRC-S /LETG
        SwiftJ1818.0-1607      ACIS-I       Aug 18
        AE_Aqr_s1              ACIS-S
        M51                    ACIS-S
        SS433                  ACIS-S/HETG
        M51                    ACIS-S       Aug 19
        Radiation Belts
        PSZ2G126.57+51.61      ACIS-S
        SS433                  ACIS-S/HETG  Aug 20
        PSZ2G126.57+51.61      ACIS-S
        MR2251-178             HRC-S /LETG
        2RXSJ063238.6-06315    ACIS-S       Aug 21
        NGC253                 ACIS-I
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I
        SNR0519-69.0           ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Aug 22
        2RXSJ054718.0-00004    ACIS-S
        MR2251-178             HRC-S /LETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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