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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 4 February 2022 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Jan 31 to swap the prime solid-state recorder (SSR) from the B-side to the A-side. This swap concludes a six-month interval of health and trending data collection on SSR-B. Additional real-time procedures were executed on Feb 2 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

A Chandra image release was issued on Feb 2 presenting a new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with data from other telescopes. The objects range from a supernova remnant within the Milky Way to a galaxy cluster millions of light years away. This is a demonstration of how new telescopes like JWST and IXPE will work with other observatories to explore the Universe. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2022/archives/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GRB 220101A, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Jan 21 and is coordinated with HST.



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        Radiation Belts                     Feb  7
        GRB220101A             ACIS-S
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S
        GRB220101A             ACIS-S       Feb  8
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S
        GRB220101A             ACIS-S
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S
        GRB220101A             ACIS-S       Feb  9
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S
        GRB220101A             ACIS-S
        UGC3855                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Feb 10
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Feb 11
        ngc4631                ACIS-S
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        NGC3081                ACIS-S
        NGC6300_s2             ACIS-S       Feb 12
        SDSSJ090531.07+03353   ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Feb 13
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        PSZ2G067.52+34.75      ACIS-I
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        CGCG1822.3+2053        ACIS-S       Feb 14
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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