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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 11 July 2025 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Jul 9 to uplink a flight software patch that updates the Aspect Camera Assembly (ACA) Processor Electronics Assembly to fix a longstanding issue known as the "PEA Wrong Box" bug. In addition, the patch includes a fix for the diagnostic "alternating" pixel mode, an update to the temperature plate scale to accommodate higher temperatures, and other minor enhancements. The net results of these changes should reduce acquisition failures by about 30%.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of GS1826-238, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jun 30 and is coordinated with NuSTAR, and an observation of EP250702a, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jul 8.



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        BOSS1348               ACIS-I       Jul 14
        GS1826-238             ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts
        Abell370               ACIS-I       Jul 15
        PSRJ1852+0040          ACIS-S
        ArLac (10 Obs)         HRC-I
        BOSS1348               ACIS-I       Jul 16
        PSRJ1813-1246          ACIS-I
        ArLac (10 Obs)         HRC-I
        1E2215.7-0404/1E       ACIS-I
        ArLac                  HRC-S        Jul 17
        BOSS1348               ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        [JDW2009]G359.55+0.    ACIS-I
        SN2017eaw              HRC-I        Jul 18
        MaNGA12622-12705       ACIS-S
        GS1826-238             ACIS-S/HETG
        NGVSJ123214.58+1203    ACIS-S
        EP250702a              ACIS-I
        Abell370               ACIS-I       Jul 19
        NGC6537                HRC-I
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Jul 20
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        NGC6537                HRC-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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