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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 25 July 2008 8.00am EDT

On July 23, we celebrated the 9th anniversary of Chandra's launch and 9 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.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.

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Radiation Belts                      Jul 27 
Carina Clusters Pt     ACIS-I        Jul 28 
1.5deg_window          ACIS-I
Carina Clusters Pt     ACIS-I        Jul 29 
Radiation Belts                      Jul 30 
Carina Clusters Pt     ACIS-I
1.5deg_window          ACIS-I        Jul 31  
1.5deg_window          ACIS-I        Aug  1  
Carina Clusters Pt     ACIS-I
Radiation Belts                      Aug  2  
HD 108248              HRC-S/LETG
1.5deg_window          ACIS-I
J12036-0358            ACIS-I        Aug  4  
NGC 4235 2             ACIS-I        Aug  4  
Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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