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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 26 September 2025 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 20 to prepare for the Lunar eclipse: one to activate SCS 29 and one to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters.

Chandra passed through a penumbral lunar eclipse on Sep 21 with nominal power and thermal performance.

Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 21 to disable SCS-29 and to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters as post-eclipse season actions.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below, and includes observations of IIZw40 coordinated with XMM-Newton, and observations of AT2025ulz, which are a follow-up to a Target of Opportunity accepted on Aug 21.



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        SDSSJ011132.32+13351   ACIS-S       Sep 29
        Radiation Belts
        WLM                    ACIS-I
        AT2025ulz              ACIS-S
        WLM                    ACIS-I       Sep 30
        AT2025ulz              ACIS-S
        WLM                    ACIS-I
        AT2025ulz              ACIS-S
        WLM                    ACIS-I
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Oct  1
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-S
        WLM                    ACIS-I
        IIZw40                 ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct  2
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-S
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        UM351                  ACIS-S
        IIZw40                 ACIS-I       Oct  3
        UM351                  ACIS-S
        IIZw40                 ACIS-I
        S82X-1094              ACIS-I       Oct  4
        SMC2857                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct  5
        NGC410                 ACIS-S
        IGRJ17598-2236         ACIS-S
        IIZw40                 ACIS-I
        NGC410                 ACIS-S
        Vega                   HRC-S
        Vega                   HRC-S
        Vega                   HRC-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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