Friday 13 July 2001 12.30pm EDT
| During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
Real-time procedures were completed on July 8 and 9 to insert and retract the LETG. Both insertion/retraction pairs were completed nominally. A routine update of the on-board ephemeris was performed on July 12. Of note during July 16-18 is the conference "The High Energy universe at Sharp Focus: A Symposium of Chandra Science" in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference will highlight a broad range of Chandra science in areas such as Supernova Remnants/Pulsars, stars, solar system/comets, X-ray binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, surveys and clusters of galaxies. The planned observations for the coming week are shown below and include a series of 30 approx 3 hour observations of the Galactic Center arranged to create a "raster scan" or mosaic of the region. The pointings provide for over 340Ks (94 hours) of observing time and as proposed, the data will be made public immediately. |
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GCS (6 obs) ACIS-I Jul 15 Radiation Belts Jul 16 GCS (14 obs) ACIS-I Jul 17 Radiation Belts Jul 19 GCS (10 obs) ACIS-I Jul 20 NGC6624 ACIS-S/HETG Jul 21 G21.5-09 ACIS-S 1749+279 ACIS-S 0405-123 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Jul 22 SN 1999EM ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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