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

Chandra passed through the second, third, and fourth eclipses of the season on May 29, Jun 1 and 3, respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Real-time procedures were executed on Jun 4 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). Real-time procedures were executed during each ground contact to reset the DSN Outage Dead Man Load.

A Chandra image release was issued on May 29 describing observations of a pair of jets blasting away from the black hole MAXI J1820+070 at 80% the speed of light. The stellar-mass black hole is about 8 solar masses and is accreting material from a closely orbiting companion star, supporting the generation of a relativistic jet. Four observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory taken in 2018 and 2019 allowed astronomers to detect the jets as they slam into surrounding material. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2020/maxij1820/

A second Chandra image release was issued on Jun 2 presenting a new visualization, "Galactic Center VR," featuring simulations of material streaming toward the Milky Way's supermassive black hole known as Sgr A*. Users can experience the last 500 years of cosmic evolution in this area in a free virtual reality program. By providing a six-degrees-of-freedom ("6dof") VR experience, the user can look and move in any direction they choose. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2020/gcenter/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of 4U 1630-47, which is a follow-up to a Target of Opportunity accepted on May 15 and is coordinated with ATCA, an observation of GRO J1008-57, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on May 21 and is coordinated with HST and NRAO, an observation of NGC 205 coordinated with NRAO/VLA, and an observation of Haro 1-10, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Feb 19.