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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 6 March 2009 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Mar 3 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

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

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RCS1330+3043           ACIS-S      Mar  8
SDSSJ1202+5119         ACIS-S
3C35                   ACIS-I
NGC7196                ACIS-S      Mar  9
AXJ182538-1214         ACIS-S
SDSSJ1413-0238         ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
AEGIS-3                ACIS-I
3C236W                 ACIS-I      Mar 10
NGC4203                ACIS-S
AEGIS-3                ACIS-I      Mar 11
Arp240                 ACIS-S
HZ43                   HRC-I/LETG
M31                    ACIS-I
BRC34                  ACIS-I
Radiation Belts                    Mar 12
AEGIS-3                ACIS-I
AXJ182216-1425         ACIS-S
SPT-CL2359-5009        ACIS-I
EVLac                  ACIS-S/HETG Mar 13
SDSSJ120331.29+1522    ACIS-S      Mar 14
GRB090102              ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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