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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 20 February 2004 9.30am EST

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

A real-time procedure was completed on Feb 16 to perform a manual unload of momentum. The unload was performed at an attitude that ensured a cool starting temperature and thruster performance was nominal throughout the unload.

A Chandra press release was issued on Feb 18 as a NASA HQ Space Science update. The SSU described observations from Chandra, XMM and ROSAT that provide the first strong evidence of the destruction of a star by a supermassive black hole. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/rxj1242/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of IRAS 13349+2438 coordinated with HST.

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Radiation Belts                     Feb 23
IRAS 13349+2438         ACIS-S/HETG Feb 24
Radiation Belts                     Feb 26
RX J0720-3125           HRC-S/LETG  Feb 27
RX J0806.3+1527         ACIS-S
NGC 1023                ACIS-S
NGC 205                 ACIS-S
V4743 Sgr               HRC-S/LETG
Earth                   HRC-I       Feb 28
PMN J1451-1512          ACIS-S
A1689                   ACIS-I
RXJ1242-1119            ACIS-S
F1225-1225              ACIS-S
NGC4350                 ACIS-S
NGC 3393                ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                     Feb 29


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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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