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Friday 4 June 2010 9.00am EDT
| Chandra entered Normal Sun Mode (NSM) at 11:36 pm EDT on Saturday May 29
as the result of a reset of the Interface Unit (IU) on-board the
spacecraft. Entry into NSM was nominal and assessment of the telemetry
indicated that all spacecraft hardware was performing nominally.
Engineering assessment suggested that the reset of the IU and
subsequent transition to NSM was due to a single event upset and the
decision was made to recover to normal pointing mode and continue with
science. The recovery took place on May 30-31 and science was resumed
on June 1 at 1 am. Science targets that were impacted by the anomaly
will be rescheduled in a future load.
Chandra passed through the ninth and tenth eclipses of the 2010 summer season on May 30 and June 1 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance. In addition to the real-time procedures associated with the NSM recovery, a real-time procedure was executed on May 30 to configure Chandra for the ninth eclipse of the season as the transition to NSM had halted the on-board configuration commands. An additional real-time procedure was executed on June 3 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 WPVS 007 coordinated with HST. |
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Radiation Belts Jun 7 NGC4648 ACIS-S SDSSJ155811.24+3957 ACIS-S SerpensSouth ACIS-I IC1396_BRC36 ACIS-I Jun 9 NGC4939 ACIS-S SDSSJ153425.59+0408 ACIS-S PGC1209872 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Jun 10 Q0957+561 ACIS-S ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I WPVS007 ACIS-S Jun 11 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Radiation Belts Jun 12 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Jun 13
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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