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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 22 October 2021 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Oct 15 to update several telescope subsystem K-constants related to the insertion and retraction of gratings in order to account for spacecraft thermal trends. Additional real-time procedures were executed on Oct 15-17 to dump OBC-A and -B memory as a follow-up to the patch. The dump will be used to update the baseline memory images maintained on the ground.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of MAXI J1848-015, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Aug 25 and is coordinated with VLA, and an observation of eRASSt J234403.0-352640, which is a follow-up to a Target of Opportunity accepted on May 11.



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        Radiation Belts                     Oct 24
        MAXIJ1848-015          ACIS-S       Oct 25
        SDSSJ011623.04+14294   ACIS-S
        MAXIJ1848-015          ACIS-S
        PSRB2224+65            ACIS-I
        RMJ020146.6+182552.6   ACIS-I       Oct 26
        MOOJ1059+5454          ACIS-I
        LEDA3096766            ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 27
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        2RXSJ022824.3+05380    ACIS-S       Oct 28
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        RMJ022905.6+043003.1   ACIS-I
        2RXSJ021157.9+04214    ACIS-S
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        eRASStJ234403.0-352    ACIS-S       Oct 29
        DESJ040559.80-33085    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 30
        2MASSJ04351354+2008    ACIS-S
        PG1115+080             ACIS-S
        2MASSJ04351354+2008    ACIS-S
        [MOK2016b]HSCJ0921     ACIS-S       Oct 31
        DELSJ041128.63-0907    ACIS-S
        SNR0519-69.0           ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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