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Operations CXO Status Report

Saturday 23 September 2000 12.00pm EDT

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

The observatory passed through the seventh and eighth eclipses of the Fall 2000 season with nominal power and thermal performance. A short eclipse software patch was uplinked on 16 Sept in support of the final (8th) eclipse. A software patch to revert to the default medium eclipse state was uplinked on 18 Sept.

A real-time ACIS squeegee mode test was conducted at 2:40pm EDT on 15 Sept to test the squeegee approach with a full raw mode on the S0 chip. Initial assessment of the real-time data shows performance as expected.

The LETG will be inserted during a real-time pass at 1am EDT on 25 Sept for the upcoming week of LETG observations.

The planned observations for the coming week are as follows.

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Abell 4059              ACIS-S       Sep 24 
NGC 1360                HRC-S/LETG   Sep 25 
Radiation Belts                      Sep 26 
Sirius B                HRC-S/LETG
X Persei (HD 24534)     HRC-S/LETG   Sep 27 
H1504+65                HRC-S/LETG
RX J0019.8+2156         HRC-S/LETG   Sep 28 
Radiation Belts
YY Gem                  HRC-S/LETG   Sep 29 
AM Her                  HRC-S/LETG   Sep 30 
NGC 3516                ACIS-S/LETG
V1494 Aql               HRC-S/LETG   Oct 1  
Radiation Belt
Z eta Pup               HRC-S/LETG   Oct 2

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.

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