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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 30 December 2016 9.00am EST

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

Preparations are complete for the winter 2017 eclipse season; the season contains six eclipses and runs from Dec 30 to Jan 13. Real-time procedures were executed on Dec 29 to prepare for the first eclipse: one to activate SCS 29 and one to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.



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        Radiation Belts                     Jan  2
        RXJ1131-1231           ACIS-S       Jan  3
        AeAur                  ACIS-I
        NGC4833                ACIS-S
        NovaSMC2016            HRC-S /LETG  Jan  4
        AeAur                  ACIS-I
        Q2237+0305             ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jan  5
        SDSSJ084158.47+39212   ACIS-S
        PSRB1259-63            ACIS-I       Jan  6
        AeAur                  ACIS-I
        MRK78                  ACIS-S       Jan  7
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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