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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 2 February 2001 8.30am EST

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

A software patch was prepared and uplinked to the spacecraft on 2/1/01 to recover data from the Solid State Recorder following a missed pass and procedural problem. The potential for data loss was recognized immediately on 1/30/01 and recording swapped from SSR-B to SSR-A. The patch to modify the values of the SSR-B pointers allowed recovery of all data from the recorder without loss or operational impact.

The planned observations for the coming week are shown below and will incorporate a real-time pass on 8 Feb to uplink the short eclipse patch in support of the start of the Spring 2001 eclipse season on 11 Feb.

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Vela X-1                ACIS-S/HETG  Feb 5  
Radiation Belts
NGC 4051                ACIS-S       Feb 6  
A2256                   ACIS-S
B2 0326+39              ACIS-S
IC 1727                 ACIS-S       Feb 7  
Lambda Orionis          ACIS-I
Vela X-1                ACIS-S/HETG
Iota Orionis            ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belts                      Feb 8  
Iota Orionis            ACIS-S/HETG
HD 206267               ACIS-S/HETG
H 1821+643              ACIS-S/HETG  Feb 9  
OAO 1657-415            ACIS-S/HETG  Feb 10 
Radiation Belts
Capella                 ACIS-S/HETG  Feb 11 
Vela X-1                ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.

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