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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 23 January 2009 7.00am EST

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to include a 10 ks observation of the source 1E1547.0-5408 that was accepted as a fast turn-around Target Of Opportunity (TOO) on Jan 22. Loads were replanned to remove an observation of SS7317 and add an observation of AXJ153751-5556 to accommodate the TOO. Loads were uplinked for an observation on Jan 23.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Eta Carinae coordinated with Suzaku.

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Radiation Belts                     Jan 26
SPT-CL0528-5300        ACIS-I
AXJ162046-4942         ACIS-S
ESO139-G12             ACIS-I
BD+303639              ACIS-S
Willman1               ACIS-I       Jan 27
Radiation Belts                     Jan 28
Eta Carinae            ACIS-S       Jan 29
2MASXJ17544125-6054    ACIS-I
XTEJ1701-462           ACIS-S
J1702-4310             ACIS-I       Jan 30
RXJ1713.7-3946NW       ACIS-I
J1718-3825             ACIS-I
IGRJ17204-3554         ACIS-I
NGC6342                ACIS-S
NGC6325                ACIS-S       Jan 31
NGC6333                ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
SN2008ij               ACIS-S
1116+128               ACIS-S       Feb  1
DA240W                 ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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