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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 13 June 2003 8.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was completed on June 12 to perform a warm re-start of the noisy IRU-1 gyro-1. On re-start, the IRU-1 gyro-1 current reset from its recent level of ~140 mA to 96 mA, a value comparable to its pre-launch level. The reset of the current is very promising and its future trend will be monitoring carefully. IRU-2 continues in a powered on state in parallel with operations and on June 9 a series of calibration maneuvers were executed from the daily loads.

A momentum dump was performed on June 12 prior to the gyro-1 warm start and was completed with nominal thruster performance. The unload was performed at a relatively low starting temperature.

A third real-time procedure was run on June 12 to lower the ACA CCD temperature from -12 to -13 deg C to mitigate the increasing number of warm pixels. This is the third of five planned 1 degree step reductions.

Of note last week was the conduct of the Chandra User's Committee meeting on Jun 12-13.

The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes two observations of NGC 526A coordinated with XMM.

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Eta Carinae            ACIS-S/HETG  Jun 16
2MASS042032-204759     ACIS-S       Jun 17
BR 0331-1622           ACIS-S
SDSS J022756+005733.1  ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
1E 1207.4-5209         ACIS-S/LETG  Jun 18
X1702-429              HRC-I        Jun 19
X1715-321              HRC-I
SGR A*                 ACIS-I
XTE J1814-338          ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belts                     Jun 20
SDSS J022841+005208.6  ACIS-S
SDSS J2215-0045        ACIS-S
NGC 526A               ACIS-S/HETG
KES 27                 ACIS-I       Jun 21
NGC 526A               ACIS-S/HETG
SN 2003BG              ACIS-S       Jun 22

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All spacecraft subsystems, with the exception of the MUPS thruster A-1 under investigation, continued to operate nominally.

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