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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 13 July 2001 12.30pm EDT

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

Real-time procedures were completed on July 8 and 9 to insert and retract the LETG. Both insertion/retraction pairs were completed nominally. A routine update of the on-board ephemeris was performed on July 12.

Of note during July 16-18 is the conference "The High Energy universe at Sharp Focus: A Symposium of Chandra Science" in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference will highlight a broad range of Chandra science in areas such as Supernova Remnants/Pulsars, stars, solar system/comets, X-ray binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, surveys and clusters of galaxies.

The planned observations for the coming week are shown below and include a series of 30 approx 3 hour observations of the Galactic Center arranged to create a "raster scan" or mosaic of the region. The pointings provide for over 340Ks (94 hours) of observing time and as proposed, the data will be made public immediately.

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GCS (6 obs)             ACIS-I       Jul 15
Radiation Belts                      Jul 16
GCS (14 obs)            ACIS-I       Jul 17
Radiation Belts                      Jul 19
GCS (10 obs)            ACIS-I       Jul 20
NGC6624                 ACIS-S/HETG  Jul 21
G21.5-09                ACIS-S
1749+279                ACIS-S
0405-123                ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                      Jul 22
SN 1999EM               ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.

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