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Friday 30 December 2016 9.00am EST
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Preparations are complete for the winter 2017 eclipse season; the season contains six eclipses and runs from Dec 30 to Jan 13. Real-time procedures were executed on Dec 29 to prepare for the first eclipse: one to activate SCS 29 and one to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters. The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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Radiation Belts Jan 2 RXJ1131-1231 ACIS-S Jan 3 AeAur ACIS-I NGC4833 ACIS-S NovaSMC2016 HRC-S /LETG Jan 4 AeAur ACIS-I Q2237+0305 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Jan 5 SDSSJ084158.47+39212 ACIS-S PSRB1259-63 ACIS-I Jan 6 AeAur ACIS-I MRK78 ACIS-S Jan 7 Radiation Belts
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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