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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 22 May 2009 7.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was completed on May 18 to update the on-board ephemeris. A second procedure was conducted on May 21 to perform a routine dump of the OBC memory.

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

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Radiation Belts                     May 25
GRB090423              ACIS-S
Abell2052              ACIS-S
GRB090423              ACIS-S       May 27
Radiation Belts                     May 28
PKS2155-304            ACIS-S/LETG
J0045+1339             ACIS-S
NGC2314                ACIS-S
SDSSJ0133-1026         ACIS-S
M31                    ACIS-I       May 29
G21.5-09 (3 obs)       ACIS-S
Alpha Centauri         HRC-I
Abell 2052             ACIS-S
G21.5-09               ACIS-S       May 30
Radiation Belts
SDSSJ004459.24-08532   ACIS-I
UGC04483               ACIS-S       May 31
SDSSJ232428.43+1443    ACIS-S
1RXSJ220221.0+015353   ACIS-S
M17                    ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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