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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 13 April 2018 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Apr 12 to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of M87, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Apr 2 and is coordinated with NuSTAR, and observations of Sgr A* coordinated with NuSTAR and the Event Horizon Telescope.



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        SN2014C                ACIS-S       Apr 16
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        4C+50.43               ACIS-S
        CDWFS                  ACIS-I       Apr 17
        VTC22180103            ACIS-S
        CDWFS                  ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Apr 18
        MACSJ1206-0847         ACIS-I
        SDSS1004+4112          ACIS-S       Apr 19
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        NGC4316                ACIS-S       Apr 20
        SDSSJ110458.30+2908    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Apr 21
        MACSJ1206-0847         ACIS-I
        IC3322                 ACIS-S
        M87                    ACIS-S
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        SDSSJ214613.30+0009    ACIS-S       Apr 22
        SN2014C                ACIS-S
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        EQJ1122+2550           ACIS-S
        A1795                  ACIS-S       Apr 23
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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