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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 22 September 2023 9.00am EDT

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

Chandra passed through the 6th and 7th eclipses of the season on Sep 17 and 20 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 20 to update the ACIS Flight Software to version 60 (Standard H, Optional J) and to update the txings parameters to optimized values appropriate for the current state of the solar cycle. These actions will improve the robustness of ACIS operations.

Of note, the annual symposium of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program will take place in Cambridge Sep 18-22. There will be over 60 science talks across all areas of astrophysics. For more information see: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/fellows/2023-nhfp-symposium/

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



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        Radiation Belts                     Sep 25
        PSZ2G075.85+15.53      ACIS-S
        MR2251-178             HRC-S /LETG  Sep 26
        J0038                  ACIS-S
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        MR2251-178             HRC-S /LETG
        J0038                  ACIS-S       Sep 27
        SNR1987A               ACIS-S/HETG
        J0038                  ACIS-S
        SNR1987A               HRC-S /LETG
        Abell2744              ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Sep 28
        QSOJ0041-4936          ACIS-I
        ESO338-4               ACIS-I
        MR2251-178             HRC-S /LETG  Sep 29
        Slugnebula             ACIS-I
        Ark120_s3              ACIS-S
        PSZ2G075.85+15.53      ACIS-S
        Abell2744              ACIS-I
        SNR1987A               HRC-S /LETG  Sep 30
        SDSSJ014128.26+0706    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        SDSSJ082603.32+3428    ACIS-S
        Slugnebula             ACIS-I       Oct  1
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S
        Slugnebula             ACIS-I
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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