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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 31 October 2025 9.00am EDT

During the last week Chandra's observing schedule was impacted by an anomaly where the High Resolution Camera (HRC-S) high voltage power supply was unexpectedly disabled at the start of an HRC-S observation. A real time procedure was run on Oct 24 to safe the HRC instrument and to prevent two subsequent HRC observations in the weekly loads from running. The cause of the HRC anomaly is under investigation. All HRC science observations are temporarily suspended.

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



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        Radiation Belts                     Nov  2
        SDSSJ114805.44+2149    ACIS-S
        Perseuscluster         ACIS-I
        SDSSJ131603.91+2922    ACIS-S
        SN1986J                ACIS-S
        SDSSJ131603.91+2922    ACIS-S
        PSZ2G144.99-24.64      ACIS-I       Nov  4
        V444Cyg                ACIS-S/HETG
        Perseuscluster         ACIS-I
        CenterofCOSMOS-Web     ACIS-I
        PSZ2G144.99-24.64      ACIS-I       Nov  5
        Radiation Belts
        NGC3239                ACIS-S
        PSZ2G144.99-24.64      ACIS-I
        NGC3239                ACIS-S       Nov  6
        PSZ2G144.99-24.64      ACIS-I
        CenterofCOSMOS-Web     ACIS-I
        PSZ2G144.99-24.64      ACIS-I
        NGC1140                ACIS-S
        VVPup                  ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC1140                ACIS-S       Nov  7
        IC5273                 ACIS-S
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Nov  8
        NGC3511                ACIS-S
        1RXSJ031639.0+15543    ACIS-S
        NGC3511                ACIS-S
        NGC1140                ACIS-S
        IC5273                 ACIS-S       Nov  9
        SDSSJ022226.11-0857    ACIS-S
        2MASSJ17422050-5146    ACIS-S
        SDSSJ014837.63+0600    ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.

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