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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 2 September 2016 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Aug 26-27 to dump OBC-A and -B memory as a follow-up to the patch uplinked on Aug 25. The dumps will be used to update the baseline memory images maintained on the ground.

A Chandra press release was issued on Aug 30 describing observation of the most distant galaxy cluster found to date. This cluster, called CL J1001+0220, lies about 11.1 billion light years from Earth. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity. Chandra and the other telescopes may have captured this cluster at an important stage never seen before. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/16_releases/press_083016.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of SMC X-3, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Aug 30, an observation of 1RXSJ010713.0-113554 coordinated with NuSTAR, and observations of Capella coordinated with XMM.



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        Radiation Belts                     Sep  5
        Mrk273                 ACIS-S       Sep  6
        SMCX-3                 ACIS-S/HETG
        PROCYON                HRC-I        Sep  7
        CODEX64232             ACIS-I
        XLSSJ022303.3-04362    ACIS-S
        SMCX-3                 ACIS-S/HETG
        fcc83                  ACIS-S
        1RXSJ010713.0-113554   ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Sep  8
        Mrk273                 ACIS-S
        SDSSJ1535+0903         ACIS-S       Sep  9
        PRCC-66                ACIS-S
        SDSSJ0159+0033         ACIS-S
        CODEX55401             ACIS-I
        Capella                ACIS-S/LETG
        Capella                HRC-S/LETG   Sep 10
        CODEX43403             ACIS-I
        Mrk273                 ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Sep 11
        Mkn876                 ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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