Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 17 October 2003 8.30am EDT

During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A real-time procedure was completed on Oct 16 to update the on-board ephemeris. A Chandra image release was issued on Oct 14 that reveals dramatic details of a portion of the Crescent Nebula, a giant gaseous shell created by powerful winds blowing from the massive star HD 192163. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/ngc6888/ . The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes an observation of T Tau coordinated with a VLBI observation.

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NGC 6341               ACIS-S       Oct 18
CAS A                  ACIS-I       Oct 19
CAS A                  ACIS-S
CAS A                  HRC-I
HH 355F                ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
V987 Tau               ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 20
NGC1427A               ACIS-S       Oct 21
Radiation Belts                     Oct 22
XTE J1550-564          ACIS-S       Oct 23
IRAS10565+2448         ACIS-S
T Tau                  HRC-I        Oct 24
3C 78                  ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                     Oct 25
SNR DEM L238           ACIS-S
Vela Remnant           HRC-I        Oct 26

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.

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