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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 21 August 2015 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Aug 19 to update the contents of the A-side Command and Telemetry Unit EEPROM to include a new format 6 configuration. The previous configuration had been used for communication while in the shuttle bay during Chandra's initial deployment. The new configuration will permit more rapid sampling of selected telemetry points to aid in diagnosing conditions on the spacecraft.

A Chandra press release was issued on Aug 17 announcing the death of Dr. Stephen S. Murray. Among his many accomplishments Dr. Murray was the Principal Investigator for the High-Resolution Camera on Chandra. The release can be viewed at: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases/press_081715.html

Of note this week was "The Universe in High-resolution X-ray Spectra" science workshop held in Cambridge MA, Aug 19-21.

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks is shown below and includes an observation of NGC 660, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jul 22 and is coordinated with NuSTAR, an observation of SN2014C, which is a follow-up of a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity accepted on Dec 15 and is coordinated with NuSTAR, observations of SDSS J0040+0059 and SDSS J1332+3928 coordinated with ground-based observatories, and an observation of PG 2112+059 coordinated with HST.



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        Radiation Belts                     Aug 24
        SDSSJ1332+3928         ACIS-S
        Abell1795outskirts     ACIS-I       Aug 25
        V794Aql                ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC660                 ACIS-S       Aug 26
        Radiation Belts
        SPTCLJ2335-4544        ACIS-I       Aug 27
        UDS                    ACIS-I
        SN2014C                ACIS-S       Aug 28
        RMJ124930.9+494902.    ACIS-I
        Abell1795outskirts     ACIS-I
        PG2112+059             ACIS-S       Aug 29
        Radiation Belts
        RMJ230707.5+163246.    ACIS-I       Aug 30
        M31bulge               ACIS-I
        CygnusA-EHotspot       ACIS-I
        Abell1795outskirts     ACIS-I
        G1.9+0.3               ACIS-S       Aug 31
        RXCJ0041.0-4428        ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Sep  1
        G1.9+0.3               ACIS-S
        SDSSJ114816.64+5251    ACIS-S       Sep  2
        CygnusA-EHotspot       ACIS-I       Sep  3
        SDSSJ0040+0059         ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        3C15                   ACIS-S       Sep  4
        UDS                    ACIS-I       Sep  5
        Radiation Belts                     Sep  6

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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