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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 23 July 2021 9.00am EDT

On Jul 23, we celebrated the 22nd anniversary of Chandra's launch and 22 years of successful scientific operations. The spacecraft and instruments continue to operate superbly well and we look forward with excitement to the coming year of science discovery!

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Jul 16, Jul 17, and Jul 18 to dump OBC-A and -B memory as a follow-up to the patches uplinked on Jul 16. The dumps will be used to update the baseline memory images maintained on the ground. The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of SgrA* coordinated with VLTI/GRAVITY.



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        IC750                  ACIS-S       Jul 25
        hetej1900.1-2455       ACIS-S       Jul 26
        Radiation Belts
        NGC253                 ACIS-I
        ASASSN-18tb            ACIS-S
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I       Jul 27
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        WR97                   ACIS-S       Jul 28
        IC750                  ACIS-S
        H1821+643              HRC-S /LETG
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Jul 29
        Collinder197           ACIS-I
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        Collinder197           ACIS-I       Jul 30
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I
        [DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG     ACIS-S
        hetej1900.1-2455       ACIS-S
        NGC3268                ACIS-I       Jul 31
        hetej1900.1-2455       ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Aug  1
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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