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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 19 August 2011 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Aug 18 to update the on-board ephemeris.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes several Target of Opportunity observations: of SN2011ei (accepted on Aug 10), of GRB 110731A (accepted on Aug 10), of IGR J17498-2921 (accepted on Aug 14), and of Swift J1834.9-0846 (accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time TOO on Aug 10).



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SN2011ei               ACIS-S       Aug 21
         IGRJ17498-2921         HRC-S        Aug 22
         GRB110731A             ACIS-S
         LGG345                 ACIS-I
         SwiftJ1834.9-0846      ACIS-S
         Radiation Belts                     Aug 23
         A133-1                 ACIS-I
         M31                    ACIS-I       Aug 25
         Radiation Belts
         G149.24+54.18          ACIS-I
         Markarian3             ACIS-S/HETG  Aug 26
         A133-1                 ACIS-I
         SPT-CLJ2344-4242       ACIS-I       Aug 27
         A548e                  ACIS-I
         PSRJ1028-5819          ACIS-I
         HD120136               ACIS-I
         SDSSJ160918.93+0824    ACIS-S
         3C314.1                ACIS-S       Aug 28
         Radiation Belts
         Markarian3             ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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