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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 25 June 2021 9.00am EDT

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

A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 24 featuring the motions of the supernova remnant MSH 15-52 which have been measured for the first time, using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast wave and debris from an exploded star are seen moving away from the explosion site and colliding with a wall of surrounding gas. Images from 2004-2018 show the blast wave moving at about 4,000 km/sec. For details, see: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2021/msh1552/

The schedule of targets for next week is shown below and includes an observation of MAXI J1348-630, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on May 14, and an observation of eRASSt J234403.0-352640, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on May 11.



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        MAXIJ1348-630          ACIS-S       Jun 28
        JWST-DTDF-1            ACIS-I
        GX17+2                 ACIS-S/HETG
        SN2013ff               ACIS-S       Jun 29
        JWST-DTDF-1            ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 30
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/HETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        MKN421                 HRC-S /LETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        MKN421                 HRC-S /LETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        MKN421                 HRC-S /LETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/HETG
        A1889SE                ACIS-I       Jul  1
        NGC253                 ACIS-I
        eRASStJ234403.0-352    ACIS-S
        TOI1130                ACIS-S
        GDH1                   ACIS-I
        GDH1                   ACIS-I
        GDH1                   ACIS-I
        GDH1                   ACIS-I
        SN2012cw               ACIS-S
        GDH1                   ACIS-I
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I       Jul  2
        [DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG     ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/HETG  Jul  3
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        MKN421                 HRC-S /LETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        MKN421                 HRC-S /LETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        MKN421                 HRC-S /LETG
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/HETG
        J115342.81+483844.4    ACIS-S
        SS433                  ACIS-S/HETG
        PSRB2224+65            ACIS-I       Jul  4
        SS433                  ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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