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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 2 February 2018 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Jan 31 to perform a full-frame dark current readout of the Aspect Camera Assembly CCD during a standard one-hour comm pass. This was a demonstration of a new operational concept to obtain dark current data more frequently than the current cadence of four times per year. A second real-time procedure was executed on Jan 31 to swap the prime solid-state recorder (SSR) from the B-side to the A-side. This swap concludes a six-month interval of health and trending data collection on SSR-B.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Swift J164449.3+573451 coordinated with the VLA, and observations of NGC 300 ULX-1, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jan 26.



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        SDSSJ105310.82+5016    ACIS-S       Feb  5
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG
        SwiftJ164449.3+5734    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Feb  6
        NuSTARJ151253-8124.3   ACIS-S
        J1254+2104             ACIS-S
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG
        SwiftJ164449.3+5734    ACIS-S       Feb  7
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG
        SDSSJ140025.40+3149    ACIS-S
        E0102-72               ACIS-S
        NGC300ULX-1            ACIS-S       Feb  8
        PSRJ1809-1917          ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        NGC2243                ACIS-S       Feb  9
        NVSSJ162830+115403     ACIS-S
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG
        PSRJ1809-1917          ACIS-I
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG  Feb 10
        PSRJ1809-1917          ACIS-I
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG
        SDSSJ154824.01+3335    ACIS-S       Feb 11
        Radiation Belts
        NGC300ULX-1            ACIS-S
        NGC2243                ACIS-S
        SwiftJ164449.3+5734    ACIS-S
        PSRJ1809-1917          ACIS-I       Feb 12
        PG1116+215             HRC-S /LETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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