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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 3 February 2017 9.00am EST

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to remove the grating from the observation of 4U 1630-47.

A real-time procedure was executed on Feb 1 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. A second real-time procedure was executed on Feb 1 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes GRS 1716-249, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jan 31, and iPTF17cw, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jan 23.



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        Radiation Belts                     Feb  6
        GRS1716-249            ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC4206                ACIS-S
        LEDA87445              ACIS-I
        NGC3600                ACIS-S       Feb  7
        IRAS17020+4544         HRC-S /LETG
        NGC4220                ACIS-S
        IRAS17020+4544         HRC-S /LETG  Feb  8
        iPTF17cw               ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Feb  9
        Abell586               ACIS-I
        NGC3583                ACIS-S
        IRAS17020+4544         HRC-S /LETG
        NGC4411b               ACIS-S
        LEDA87445              ACIS-I       Feb 10
        spog5260               ACIS-S
        IRAS17020+4544         HRC-S /LETG
        Abell586               ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Feb 11
        Abell586               ACIS-I
        NGC4237                ACIS-S       Feb 12
        CygnusA-Nucleus        ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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