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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 3 October 2014 8.00am EDT

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to incorporate an observation of GRB 140930B, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Oct 1. Loads for the replanned schedule were uplinked on Oct 2. An observation of HD 206267 was impacted by the replan and will be rescheduled in a future week.

A real-time procedure was executed on Oct 1 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

Of note this week was the release on Sep 26 of an alpha version of the Sherpa 4.7 standalone binary package. For details see: http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/contrib/sherpa47b/

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks is shown below and includes observations of Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring and an observation of Rho Oph Cloud A coordinated with Kepler.



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        Radiation Belts                     Oct  5
        RhoOphCloudA           ACIS-I       Oct  6
        SWIFTJ0455.8-753       ACIS-I       Oct  7
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct  8
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        3C93                   ACIS-S       Oct 10
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        2XMMJ141711.0+52254    ACIS-S       Oct 11
        SwiftJ1822.3-1606      ACIS-S
        3C459                  ACIS-S       Oct 12
        NGC1399                ACIS-S
        SPT-CLJ0411-4819       ACIS-I       Oct 13
        Radiation Belts
        SPT-CLJ0411-4819       ACIS-I       Oct 14
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 16
        LMCX-2                 ACIS-S/HETG
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Oct 17
        3C225B                 ACIS-S       Oct 18
        Radiation Belts
        SDSSJ163718.64+2740    ACIS-S       Oct 19
        C2013A1SIDINGSPRING    ACIS-S
        C2013A1SIDINGSPRING    ACIS-S
        C2013A1SIDINGSPRING    ACIS-I
        C2013A1SIDINGSPRING    ACIS-I       Oct 20
        SDSSJ163718.64+2740    ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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