Friday 17 January 2014 9.00am EST
During the last week the radiation environment recovered enough
following the high-radiation event of Jan 7 to resume operations. A
replanned schedule for resuming science observations was uplinked on
Jan 10 with 242.6ks of science loss. The replanned schedule is shown below and includes an observation of XSS J12270-4859, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time TOO on Dec 16 and had been impacted by the schedule interruption. Other impacted observations will be rescheduled in future weeks. |
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Since resumption Chandra has completed the observing schedule as planned.
A Chandra press release was issued on Jan 13 as a NASA press release describing observations of PSR B1509-58 and the COSMOS field by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Combining NuSTAR's higher-energy X-ray images with Chandra data provides a unique view of these well-studied objects. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/14_releases/press_011314.html
The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below
------------------------------------------ Radiation Belts Jan 19 A2142 ACIS-S US16230783-2300596 ACIS-S Jan 21 COSMOSLegacy ACIS-I PSRJ1652-1400 ACIS-S US16094098-2217594 ACIS-S MSH11-62 ACIS-I Radiation Belts Jan 22 A2142 ACIS-S US16104202-2101319 ACIS-S Jan 23 COSMOSLegacy ACIS-I NGC6072 ACIS-S A2142 ACIS-S Jan 24 G286.58-31.25 ACIS-I Radiation Belts G085.99+26.71 ACIS-I Jan 25 G163.72+53.53 ACIS-I G036.72+14.92 ACIS-I US16154416-1921171 ACIS-S Jan 26 COSMOSLegacy ACIS-I US16035767-2031055 ACIS-S MSH11-62 ACIS-I CIHyi ACIS-S IC4637 ACIS-S Jan 27------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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