Chandra Operations CXO Status Report Friday 1/18/02

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

Real-time procedures were completed on Jan 11 to resume loads following last week’s solar stoppage, and to perform an ACIS CTI measurement.

Of note last week was the installation of a new version of the ground system operating system (IRIX 6.5.9f), and an updated version of the Online system (3.8.1). The installation was made on Jan 16 and proceeded smoothly. Also of note was the conduct on Jan 15 of the 2002 Chandra Fellows Peer Review.

The schedule of observations for the coming week are shown below and includes observations of NGC 5548 and V471 Tau coordinated with HST.

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Radiation Belts                     Jan 20 
NGC 5548               HRC-S/LETG   Jan 21 
Radiation Belts
XTE J1650-500          ACIS-S/HETG  Jan 23 
CAS A                  ACIS-S
CAS A (2 obs)          ACIS-S       Jan 24 
CAS A                  HRC-I
IC342 S1 AND S2        HRC-I
V471 Tau               HRC-S/LETG
Radiation Belts                     Jan 25 
ARLac (21 obs)         HRC-S        Jan 26 
ARLac (21 obs)         HRC-I
NGC2403 S3             HRC-I        Jan 27 
1E0953.8+6918          HRC-I
M81 X-6                HRC-I
3C 427.1               ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.