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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 1 April 2011 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was completed on Mar 31 to uplink a flight software patch that updates the telescope thermal health check threshold. The update is in response to increasing temperatures due to degradation of the Observatory's thermal covers during the mission. A second real-time procedure was completed on Mar 31 to update the on-board ephemeris. Additional real-time procedures were executed on Mar 31 and Apr 1 to dump OBC-A memory as a follow-up to the thermal health check patch. The dump will be used to update the baseline memory image maintained on the ground.

A Chandra press release was issued on Mar 29 announcing the selection of the 2011 Einstein Fellows who will conduct research related to NASA's Physics of the Cosmos program, which aims to expand our knowledge of the origin, evolution, and fate of the Universe. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/11_releases/press_032911.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GRB110328A, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Mar 29.

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Abell1668              ACIS-S       Apr  3
GRB110328A             HRC-I        Apr  4
2021+614               ACIS-S
3C379.1                ACIS-S
UGC09874               ACIS-S
4C+37.11               ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
NGC5813                ACIS-S       Apr  5
GZ_merger_AGN_3        ACIS-I       Apr  6
IC1291                 ACIS-S
ACTJ0641-4948          ACIS-I       Apr  7
Radiation Belts
NGC5813                ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                     Apr 10
Abell1775              ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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