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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 8 May 2015 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on May 6 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 GRB 150314A, which is a Target of Opportunity follow-up accepted on Mar 19, Centaurus A coordinated with NuSTAR, and observations of Praesepe coordinated with Kepler.



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        NGC5044                ACIS-S       May 11
        GRB150314A             ACIS-S       May 12
        HD191612               ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     May 13
        CentaurusA             ACIS-S/LETG
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S       May 14
        Abell1795outsk (2 obs) ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     May 15
        Abell1795outskirts     ACIS-I       May 16
        Praesepe               ACIS-I
        CentaurusA             ACIS-S/LETG  May 17
        Praesepe               ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     May 18

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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