Friday 23 July 2021 9.00am EDT
On Jul 23, we celebrated the 22nd anniversary of Chandra's launch and 22 years of successful scientific operations. The spacecraft and instruments continue to operate superbly well and we look forward with excitement to the coming year of science discovery! During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Real-time procedures were executed on Jul 16, Jul 17, and Jul 18 to dump OBC-A and -B memory as a follow-up to the patches uplinked on Jul 16. The dumps will be used to update the baseline memory images maintained on the ground. The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of SgrA* coordinated with VLTI/GRAVITY. |
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IC750 ACIS-S Jul 25
hetej1900.1-2455 ACIS-S Jul 26
Radiation Belts
NGC253 ACIS-I
ASASSN-18tb ACIS-S
Westerlund1 ACIS-I Jul 27
SgrA* ACIS-S
WR97 ACIS-S Jul 28
IC750 ACIS-S
H1821+643 HRC-S /LETG
Westerlund1 ACIS-I
Radiation Belts Jul 29
Collinder197 ACIS-I
SgrA* ACIS-S
Collinder197 ACIS-I Jul 30
Westerlund1 ACIS-I
[DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG ACIS-S
hetej1900.1-2455 ACIS-S
NGC3268 ACIS-I Jul 31
hetej1900.1-2455 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts Aug 1
Westerlund1 ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022