Chandra Users Committee CXC Managers Status Report For the period April 09 October 09

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Chandra Users CommitteeCXC Managers Status
ReportFor the period April 09 October 09

• Edward Mattison
• CXC Deputy Manager
• 29 October 2009

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Topics

• Program Level Status
• Program Management
• Spacecraft
• Science Instruments and Calibration
• Mission Planning
• OCC
• Data Processing
• CXCDS
• Chandra Directors Office
• Education and Public Outreach
• Mission Metrics
• Chandra Grant Awards

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Top Level Summary

• Spacecraft and instruments are performing
  superbly
• The CXC contract extension for up to 10
  additional years and 573M is expected to be
  signed in mid-November

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Program Level Status Program Management

• Budget
• The CXCs budget is on track with the FY09
  Operating Plan
• CXC contract extension
• SAO submitted (in July) the requested proposal to
  extend the CXC contract for up to 10 years
• We are currently working with MSFC and
  subcontractors to resolve audit questions and to
  deal with NGST rate changes that resulted from
  NGSTs corporate reorganization
• Expect signed contract extension in mid-November

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Program Level Status Program Management

• Facilities
• SAO and NGST studied the feasibility of moving
  the OCC from Kendall Square to Cambridge
  Discovery Park, to save 1M/yr
• Produced detailed plan and schedule
• After considering benefits vs. risk, MSFC
  declined to approved the move
• Reviews and Conferences
• Peer Review (6/22/09)
• Supernova Remnant workshop (7/8/09)
• Quarterly review (9/2/09)
• Calibration review (9/21/09)
• Chandras First Decade of Discovery (9/22-25/09)
• Einstein Fellows Symposium (10/27/09)

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Program Level Status CXC Organization
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Program Level Status Operations

• Spacecraft
• Continues to operate extremely well overall
• Nominal passages through summer eclipse season
• Science Instruments
• Instruments are operating extremely well

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Program Level Status Operations

• Anomalies
• Momentum Unloading Propulsion System (MUPS)
  pressure drop
• Propellant pressure reading decreased abruptly
  7/19
• Cause Pressure transducer operates incorrectly
• Impact Benign Demonstrated CXCs skill in
  handling anomaly situation
• Grating status switch operates unexpectedly
• HETG move flag set to failed 7/7/09 (grating
  move was okay)
• Cause Previously-failed microswitch unexpectedly
  came to life
• Impact Benign Updated software to ignore switch
  state
• Incorrect command sequence uploaded
• Cause Operator error 8/28
• Impact Benign (but could have led to safing
  action if not identified) Updated procedures to
  prevent recurrence

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Program Level Status Operations

• Mission Planning Load-interrupting TOOs
• No load-interrupting TOOs during this period
• Several loads were replanned to respond to
  anomalous conditions
• Data Processing
• Automatic processing is current mean time from
  end of observation to delivery to user remains at
  about one day

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Program Level Status Operations

• CXC Data System Releases
• Version Date Main contents
• DS 7.6.11.13 4/24 CfP11 proposal review support
• DS 8.0 7/14 Migrate operations to Solaris 10
• DS 8.1 9/16 Migrate CDO, mission planning
  operations to Linux
• CIAO 4.1.2 4/20 Port to Solaris 10 release Level
  3 tools
• CAT 3.1.2 5/21 CSCview, novice user fixes, VO
  cone search
• GoogleEarth1.0 6/26 Web interface to CSC field
  of view images
• CAT 3.1.4 9/18 VO cone search verbosity fix
• CSC Chandra Source Catalog
• VO Virtual Observatory

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Program Level Status Operations

• Calibration Database (CalDB) Releases
• CalDB 4.1.3 7/7 ACIS T-gain epoch 37
• CalDB 4.1.4 9/17 ACIS T-gain epoch 38
• GO and Fellows Program, CXC Directors Office
• GO peer review 6/22 668 proposals submitted, 207
  approved
• Einstein Fellows call for proposal posted
  proposals due 11/5
• Grant issuance is current average time to award
  lt 3 weeks
• Education and Public Outreach
• CXCs Beautiful Universe HD podcast series won
  the Communicator Award of Excellence, the
  professional peer-judged award by the same group
  that oversees the Webbys
• From Earth to the Universe, the International
  Year of Astronomy exhibit developed by the CXCs
  EPO group, has been exhibited in over 200
  locations in 65 countries, including close to 40
  installations in a variety of settings in the US.
  See http//www.fromearthtotheuniverse.org.

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Mission MetricsMUPS Fuel Usage
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Mission MetricsThruster Warm Starts
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Mission MetricsObserving Efficiency
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Data Delivery Effectiveness
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Grant Award Effectiveness