Status Report
From: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2002
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
Preparations are complete for uplinking an update to on-board gyro scale-factor and alignment matrix. The procedure will be run on July 16 during a real-time pass and be followed by a series of test maneuvers run from the daily load.
A Chandra image release of the interacting pair of galaxies known as the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) was made on 1 July. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0158/index.html
Of note last week was the visit by members of the Hubble Space Telescope operations and Institute team to discuss Chandra and Hubble operations.
The observing schedule for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of IM Peg coordinated with RXTE.
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AX J1406.2+2228 ACIS-S Jul 14
AX J1425.2+2303 ACIS-S
G21.5-0.9 HRC-I
HEN3-1475 ACIS-S Jul 15
1746.7-3224 ACIS-S
H134824 ACIS-I
MSH 11-61A ACIS-I
G322.5-0.1 ACIS-I Jul 16
Radiation Belts Jul 17
NGC1600 ACIS-S
PSS 0008+1923 ACIS-S Jul 18
HS 0017+2116 ACIS-S
Cas A HRC-I
Cas A ACIS-I
Cas A ACIS-S
Her X-1 ACIS-S/HETG
IM Peg ACIS-S/HETG
NGC 7314 ACIS-S/HETG Jul 19
Radiation Belts
NGC 7314 ACIS-S/HETG
SMC Field 5 ACIS-I Jul 20
MSH 11-61A ACIS-I
BR1202-0725 ACIS-S Jul 21
LBQS 1314+0116 ACIS-S
AX J1218.6+0546 ACIS-S
AX J1230.8+1433 ACIS-S
AX J1231.5+1422 ACIS-S
HS 1202+3538 ACIS-S
AX J131832+3259 ACIS-I
H135556 ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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