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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 8 September 2023 9.00am EDT

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

Preparations were completed for the fall 2023 eclipse season; the season contains 25 eclipses and runs from Sep 4 to Nov 6. Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 2 to prepare for the first eclipse: one to activate SCS 29 and one to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters. Chandra passed through the 1st and 2nd eclipses of the season on Sep 4 and 6, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 6 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

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



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        ESO137-G034            ACIS-S       Sep 11
        Abell2744              ACIS-I
        AZV493                 ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Sep 12
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        HD15337                HRC-I
        WISEJ233245.02-0058    ACIS-S       Sep 13
        NGC2366                ACIS-S
        A2319                  ACIS-I
        WISEJ233245.02-0058    ACIS-S
        m31                    HRC-I        Sep 14
        LMCDeepField07         ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Sep 15
        4U1735-44              ACIS-S/HETG
        SDSSJ232515.29-09462   ACIS-S
        ESO137-G034            ACIS-S
        SDSSJ232515.29-09462   ACIS-S       Sep 16
        HD15337                HRC-I
        LMCDeepField08         ACIS-I
        Abell2744              ACIS-I
        70OPH                  HRC-I        Sep 17
        [BHW2010]G32.7193-0    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        4FGLJ0426.5+5434       ACIS-S
        m31                    HRC-I        Sep 18

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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