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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 20 May 2011 9.00am EST

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

Chandra passed through the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth eclipses of the spring season on May 14, 17, and 19 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of TDE_PS1_DDT_C12, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time TOO on Apr 29, and an observation of M31 coordinated with the VLA.

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Radiation Belts                     May 22
Abell1795              ACIS-I
TDE_PS1_DDT_C12        ACIS-S
E0102-72               ACIS-S       May 23
IGRJ16560-4958         ACIS-I
G1.9+0.3               ACIS-S
3C29                   ACIS-S
RSOph                  ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                     May 25
RSOph                  ACIS-S
3C436                  ACIS-S       May 27
M31                    ACIS-I
LP888-63               ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
E0102-72 (2 obs)       ACIS-S       May 28
1RXSJ221030.3-30054    ACIS-S
RRATJ1819-1458         ACIS-S
SDSSJ150017.58+1210    ACIS-S       May 29
Abell1795 (4 obs)      ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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