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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 18 March 2011 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Mar 17 to update the on-board ephemeris.

Of note this week the Chandra Cycle 13 proposal deadline was Mar 15 at 6pm EDT, with the exception of proposals from Principal Investigators based in Japan, who have a deadline of Mar 22 at 6pm EDT.

The schedule of targets for the next week is still in development and includes an observation of GRB110312A, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Mar 16, and an observation of IGR J17177-3656, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Mar 17.



All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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