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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 17 February 2006 8.00am EST

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

A Chandra image release of the Supernova Remnant Puppis A was issued on 15 February. The Chandra image of a region of the supernova remnant reveals a cloud being torn apart by a shock wave produced in the supernova explosion. This is the first X-ray identification of such a process in an advanced phase. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/puppisa/

The schedule of targets for next week is shown below and includes an observation of XTE J1817-330 coordinated with RXTE. The load also includes an observation RS Oph that was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time TOO this week.

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Radiation Belts                     Feb 20
M83 IXO 82             HRC-I
AX J1845-0258          ACIS-S
SWIFT J1626.6-5156     HRC-I        Feb 21
G21.5-09               HRC-I
G21.5-09               ACIS-I
SS 433                 HRC-I
G21.5-09               HRC-S
G21.5-09               ACIS-S
SDSS J120550.19+02     ACIS-S       Feb 22
AS 477                 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
V1118 Ori              ACIS-S       Feb 23
AM 0302-274            ACIS-S
XTE J1755-312          HRC-I
XTE J1817-330          ACIS-S/HETG
SS 433                 HRC-I        Feb 24
IIIZw035               ACIS-S
AM 0127-524            ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                     Feb 25
1E 1048.1-5937         ACIS-S
NGC 4915               ACIS-S       Feb 26
RS Oph                 HRC-S/LETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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