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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 11 July 2008 8.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was completed on July 10 to update the on-board Ephemeris.

Of note last week was the Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era Workshop held in Cambridge, July 8-11. The workshop was well attended with over 100 participants.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of M31 coordinated with HST.

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Radiation Belts                     Jul 15
AX J1754.2-2754        ACIS-S
G54.1+0.3              ACIS-S       Jul 16
M31                    ACIS-I
TWA-9                  ACIS-S
GC-1                   HRC-I
GC-2                   HRC-I
GC-3                   HRC-I
GC-4                   HRC-I
GC-5                   HRC-I
GC-6                   HRC-I        Jul 17
GC-7                   HRC-I
Cir X-1                ACIS-S/HETG
NGC 6293               ACIS-S
IGR J17404-3655        ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
1.5deg_window          ACIS-I       Jul 18
Radiation Belts                     Jul 20
1.5deg_window          ACIS-I       Jul 21

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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