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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 9/8/00 1.00pm EDT
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
The observatory passed through the second, third and fourth eclipses of the Fall 2000 season with nominal power and thermal performance. The next 3 eclipses will occur during next week as follows:
Eclipse 5 1:07 pm EDT 10 Sept 2000 79.2 min
Eclipse 6 4:46 am EDT 13 Sept 2000 69.1 min
Eclipse 7 8:29 pm EDT 15 Sept 2000 53.6 min
A real-time ACIS squeegee mode test was conducted at 1am EDT on 5 Sept to test the squeege approach with a back-side CCD (S1). Initial analysis of results shows performance improvement as expected. Other real-time procedures run last week included a routine check of the CPE Warm Start Count (value remained at 1) and the an on-board Ephemeris update.
The planned observations for the coming week are as follows.
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Eclipse-5 (79.2 min) Sep 10
Radiation Belts
XTE J1550-564 ACIS-S Sep 11
NGC 6251 ACIS-I
HR 1442 HRC-I
M31 (multiple) HRC-I
AR Lac-1 Eclipse ACIS-S/HETG
X1543-62 ACIS-S/HETG Sep 12
1H 0707-495 ACIS-S/HETG
Eclipse-6 (69.1 min)
Radiation Belts Sep 13
U Gem ACIS-S/HETG Sep 14
AR Lac-3 ACIS-S Sep 15
Eclipse-7 (53.6 min)
Radiation Belts
AR Lac-2 ACIS-S Sep 16
4U 1626-67 ACIS-S/HETG
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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