Friday 5 July 2002 9.00am EDT
| During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
Of note last week was the approval for uplink of an update to the on-board gyro scale-factor and alignment matrix. The uplink and associated test maneuvers are planned for July 17. A Chandra press release was issued on June 28 describing new evidence that light emanating from near a black hole loses energy climbing out of a gravitational well created by the black hole, a key prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity. For more details and the image, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_062802.html. The observing schedule for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of M31 coordinated with the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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H230230 ACIS-I Jul 8 A2631 ACIS-I AX J0043.7+0054 ACIS-S PSS 0016+3209 ACIS-S M31-T6 ACIS-I Radiation Belts G78.2+2.1 CLUMP-2 ACIS-I Jul 9 WAS 61 (2 obs) ACIS-S NGC 4038/NGC 4039 ACIS-S V824 ARA ACIS-S/HETG Jul 10 Radiation Belts Jul 11 1E 0657-56 ACIS-I Jul 12 IM PEG ACIS-S/HETG Jul 13 NGC 4038/NGC 4039 ACIS-S NGC 4596 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Jul 14 HS1140+2711 ACIS-S HS 1229+4807 ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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