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Friday 1 December 2000 10.30am EST
| Last week the observing schedule was interrupted following a high radiation event at 2:46pm EST on Nov 26 that stopped the daily load and activated the science instrument safing sequence (SCS 107). All actions were nominal and assessment of the dump data confirmed that the trigger was due to high proton counts in the EPHIN P4GM channel exceeding the pre-defined threshold of 300 counts/cm^2/s/sr. The solar levels subsided to an acceptable level over the next 36 hours and the loads were replanned and resumed at 5am EST on 28 Nov. The observations of K284, M31, N103B were impacted and will be rescheduled in a future load.
Real-time procedures were completed during last week to re-enable SCS 107 and radmon on 26 Nov in preparation for load re-start, perform an ACIS CTI measurement on 26 Nov, perform a dump of the ACA software patch table on 28 Nov to verify operation of the ACA fid light software patch, and to reinitialize the OFP thruster command processing subfunction following a counter roll-over. All procedures were completed nominally. The planned observations for the coming week are as follows and real-time procedures will be conducted to insert and retract the LETG on Dec 5 and 7 respectively. |
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NGC 1068 ACIS-S/HETG Dec 4 NGC 1068 ACIS-S/LETG Dec 5 PKS2155-304 ACIS-S/LETG Dec 6 Radiation Belt PKS2155-304 ACIS-S/LETG Dec 7 AGX J035048-1147 ACIS-I SNR 1987A ACIS-S 3C129 ACIS-S Dec 8 Radiation Belt Dec 9 1150+497 ACIS-S E0102-72 ACIS-S Dec 10
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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