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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 3 April 2009 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Apr 2 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.

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Abell2052              ACIS-S       Apr  5
WR147                  ACIS-S/HETG  Apr  6
Radiation Belts                     Apr  7
WR147 (2 obs)          ACIS-S/HETG  Apr  8
RXCJ0336.3-4037        ACIS-I
NGC1961                ACIS-I       Apr  9
Bootes Group 33        ACIS-S
1502+106               ACIS-S
F11095-0238            ACIS-S
Abell2052              ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                     Apr 10
WR147                  ACIS-S/HETG
NGC5653                ACIS-S       Apr 11
Tycho's SNR            ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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