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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 5 August 2022 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Aug 1 to check out HRC-S operation on the A-side electronics. As part of the continued evaluation of the HRC, the HRC 15V LVPS was successfully powered on for approximately 7 ks and an HRC-S science observation of Capella was completed.

Another real-time procedure was executed on Aug 1 to swap the prime solid-state recorder (SSR) from the A-side to the B-side. This swap concludes a six-month interval of health and trending data collection on SSR-A. Additional real-time procedures were executed on Aug 3 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).

Another real-time procedure was executed on Aug 4 to uplink a flight software patch to re-configure the on board software to power down the HRC 15 volt power supply during a safing action.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of DQ Tau, which are follow-up to a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jul 15.



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        RXCJ2014.8-2430        ACIS-S       Aug  8
        GDHInt33               ACIS-I
        DQTau                  ACIS-I
        PSZ2G161.94-48.17      ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Aug  9
        NGC5005                ACIS-S
        ColdECSBlankSky        HRC-S
        Radiation Belts
        DQTau                  ACIS-I
        G10.2-0.3              ACIS-I
        RXCJ2014.8-2430        ACIS-S
        CentaurusA             ACIS-S/HETG  Aug 10
        DQTau                  ACIS-I
        G10.2-0.3              ACIS-I
        RXCJ2014.8-2430        ACIS-S
        NGC5005                ACIS-S       Aug 11
        DQTau                  ACIS-I
        GDH11                  ACIS-I
        GDH11                  ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        NGC2366                ACIS-S
        ColdECSBlankSky        HRC-S        Aug 12
        DQTau                  ACIS-I
        RXCJ2014.8-2430        ACIS-S
        G10.2-0.3              ACIS-I
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        NGC5005                ACIS-S
        GDHInt33               ACIS-I       Aug 13
        RXCJ2014.8-2430        ACIS-S
        GDH11                  ACIS-I
        KeplerSNR              ACIS-S/HETG
        GX17+2                 ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Aug 14
        IGRJ12391m1612_s1      ACIS-S
        GDH11                  ACIS-I
        GDHInt33               ACIS-I
        GDHInt33               ACIS-I
        GDH11                  ACIS-I
        GDHInt33               ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.

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