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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 17 October 2014 9.00am EDT

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to incorporate an observation of NuSTAR J164222-4642.9, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Oct 13 and to update the target coordinates of two of the Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring/Mars encounter observations. A planned observation of SDSS J163718.64+274026.5 was impacted by the replan and will be rescheduled in a future week.

A real-time procedure was executed on Oct 15 to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

Of note this week was the Chandra Quarterly Review conducted on Oct 15 in Cambridge.

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks is shown below and includes observations of GRB 140930B and NuSTAR J164222-4642.9, which were accepted as Targets of Opportunity on Oct 1 and 13 respectively



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        C2013A1SIDINGS (2 obs) ACIS-S       Oct 19
        MARS (2 obs)           ACIS-I
        NuSTARJ164222-4642.    ACIS-S       Oct 20
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        NGC1404                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 21
        RYTau                  ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 22
        NGC1404                ACIS-S       Oct 23
        GRB140930B             ACIS-S
        RYTau                  ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 24
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        IGRJ17062-6143         ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 25
        30Doradus              ACIS-I
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Oct 26
        Radiation Belts
        IGRJ17062-6143         ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 27
        30Doradus              ACIS-I       Oct 28
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 29
        NGC1404tail            ACIS-S       Oct 30
        3C237                  ACIS-S       Oct 31
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Nov  1
        30Doradus              ACIS-I
        NGC1404                ACIS-S       Nov  2
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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