Operations CXO Status Report

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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        XSSJ12270-4859         ACIS-S       Jan 11
        Radiation Belts
        HD193793               ACIS-I       Jan 12
        US16110890-1904468     ACIS-S
        COSMOSLegacy (2 obs)   ACIS-I
        E0102-72               HRC-I        Jan 14
        US16085673-2033460     ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts              
        Be59                   ACIS-I
        PSRJ2222+2923          ACIS-S       Jan 15
        US16020287-2236139     ACIS-S
        US16025243-2402226     ACIS-S
        DeepField09            ACIS-I
        PSRJ1607-6449          ACIS-S       Jan 16
        US16042165-2130284     ACIS-S
        COSMOSLegacy           ACIS-I
        G315.70-18.04          ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        PictorAJet             ACIS-S       Jan 17
        NGC6153                ACIS-S
        Wasp-38                ACIS-S       Jan 18
        PSS0926+3055           ACIS-S
        COSMOSLegacy           ACIS-I
        G229.21-17.24          ACIS-I       Jan 19
        PSRJ1627-5936          ACIS-S
        US16064385-1908056     ACIS-S
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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
 

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        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

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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