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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 19 September 2008 8.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was completed on Sept 15 to update the on-board Ephemeris.

On Sept 17 a procedure was performed from the daily loads to lower the ACIS focal-plane temperature set-point during an extended HRC observation; the set-point was returned to its nominal value prior to the subsequent ACIS observation. The goal of this procedure was to determine the margin available for control of the ACIS focal-plane temperature.

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

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GRB080307             ACIS-S        Sep 22
XTEJ1716-389          ACIS-I
H2356-309             HRC-S/LETG
RXCJ0449.9-4440       ACIS-I        Sep 23
Radiation Belts
AEGIS-2               ACIS-I        Sep 24
GPS1822-131           HRC-I         Sep 25
H2356-309             HRC-S/LETG
AXJ181917-1548        HRC-I
SGR0501+4516          HRC-I
AEGIS-2               ACIS-I
Radiation Belts                     Sep 26
AEGIS-2               ACIS-I        Sep 27
RXSJ180326.2          HRC-I
H2356-309             HRC-S/LETG
EXO1742-326           HRC-I         Sep 28
AEGIS-2               ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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