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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 9 March 2018 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Mar 7 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of SN 2018gk which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Feb 13.



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        Radiation Belts
        E0102-72               ACIS-S
        E0102-72               ACIS-I
        NGC3585                ACIS-S       Mar 13
        SN1987A                ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC3585                ACIS-S       Mar 14
        SDSSJ131121.32+2227    ACIS-S
        SN2018gk               ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 15
        SN1987A                ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC3585                ACIS-S
        Mrk59                  ACIS-S
        PSRJ1605-5257          ACIS-S       Mar 16
        PSRJ2032+4127          ACIS-S
        Mrk59                  ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 17
        DDO68                  ACIS-S
        NGC3393                ACIS-S       Mar 18
        SN1987A                ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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