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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 25 March 2005 9.00am EST

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

Of note last week was an observation of the cluster A1795 performed on Mar 20 that required the Science Instrument Module (SIM) to move 3,000 motor steps further than it had previously moved in the mission. A risk assessment for the move was performed as part of the observation planning. Telemetry indicated that the move completed nominally.

A Chandra press release was issued on Mar 22 describing observations of peculiar outbursts from an Ultra Luminous X-ray source in the galaxy M74. The data provide evidence that source, a black hole, has a mass of approximately 10,000 solar masses, which would place it in a possible new class of intermediate mass black holes. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/05_releases/press_032205.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes two observations of Capella coordinated with XMM-Newton.

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A1795 (2 obs)          ACIS-I       Mar 28
Capella                ACIS-S/HETG
A2063                  ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
A2063                  ACIS-S       Mar 29
H 1413+117             ACIS-S
A1795                  ACIS-I       Mar 30
Capella                HRC-S/LETG   Mar 31
RX J0337-3457          ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
BH Transient           ACIS-S/HETG  Apr 1
NGC5813                ACIS-S       Apr 2
SDSS J1532-0039        ACIS-S
A2063                  ACIS-S
HD 215441              ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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