Chandra Users’ Committee
CXC Manager’s Status Report
For the period October 08 – March 09
Roger Brissenden
CXC Manager
06 April 2008
Topics
• Program Level Status
– Program Management
– Spacecraft
– Science Instruments and Calibration
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Mission Planning
OCC
Data Processing
CXCDS
– Chandra Director’s Office
– Education and Public Outreach
• Mission Metrics
• Chandra Grant Awards
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Program Level Status – Program Management
• Budget and Contract
– The CXC’s budget is on track with the FY09 Operating Plan
– Program budget guidelines for FY10-14 have been released by NASA HQ
and we assessing them for impacts. Meeting with HQ 4/13/09
– NASA has issued a request for proposal for a CXC contract extension to
continue Chandra operations and science for up 9 additional years
– A fast-track Integrated Acquisition Team approach is being used: the IAT
held its first meeting on 3/10/09
– RFPs to SAO subcontractors have been issued, with 45 day turnaround
– Proposal is planned for submission by May 15 with start date 10/1/09
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Program Level Status – Program Management
• Facilities
– The OCC’s contingency computer system at the CfA’s Cambridge
Discovery Park facility has been tested with the spacecraft and been
shown to be capable of supporting mission operations in case of a serious
interruption to the OCC.
• Reviews and Conferences
– CIAO workshop (10/20/08)
– Chandra Users’ Committee (10/15/08)
Planned:
– Peer Review (6/22/09)
– Supernova Remnant workshop (7/8/09)
– Calibration review (9/21/09)
– 10 Years of Science with Chandra (9/22-25/09)
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Program Level Status – CXC Organization
MSFC Space Systems Programs & Projects Office
Hefner
Chandra X-ray Center Program Office
Tananbaum
Canizares (MIT)
Brissenden
Education & Outreach
Lestition
Director's Office
Wilkes
Grants Award Section
Sozanski
Flight Operations Team
Hurley
Online Operations
Mission Planning & Testing
Spacecraft Engineering
Flight Software
Factory Support Team
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OCC Operations
Eagan
Science
Tananbaum
Facility Systems Team
Integration & Ground
S/W Maintenance
Ground Ops Team
Ops. Science Support
Calibration
Mission Planning
Sci. Data Sys. Planning
IPI Teams
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Fabbiano
Systems Engineering
Holmes
Hardware & Systems
Software Development
Test
Archive Operations
Data Processing Operations
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Program Level Status – Operations
• Spacecraft
– Continues to operate extremely well overall.
– Transition to Normal Sun Mode (10/21/08) due to a single event upset in a
circuit known to be susceptible to SEUs. 168 ks of science lost. No
adverse impact to mission.
– Nominal passages through summer eclipse season, 6/12 – 7/6.
• Science Instruments
– Instruments are operating extremely well.
– ACIS flight software v.44 performing nominally
o Upload of v.44 on 10/1/08 coincided closely with ACIS watchdog timer reboot
in continuous clocking mode
o Reloaded v.31 10/6/08 and started long test of v.44 in CC mode
o Reloaded v.44 on 1/15/09; nominal performance since
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Program Level Status – Operations
•
Mission Planning: Load-interrupting TOOs
Accepted
Target
10/01/08
10/03/08
10/06/08
12/15/08
1/22/09
3C66A
AXP 1E1547.0-5408
1ES0120+340
CSS 081007:030559+05
1E1547.0-5408
*Time from TOO approval to command upload
** Delayed by ACIS watchdog timer reset on 10/4
•
Time*
3d8h
4 d 5 h**
1d3h
1d 18h
1d 16h
OCC
– Water leak in TST room on 2/24/09
HRC EGSE damaged, computers to be replaced; ASVT unharmed. Landlord has taken
mitigating measures
•
Data Processing
– Automatic processing is current; mean time from end of observation to delivery to
user remains at about one day
“Please pass on to the relevant groups my appreciation and congratulations on a smoothly running
system! My M87 observation ended circa 5am EDT 1 Apr. The data were made available to
me in the evening, and I reduced them before going to bed... all in the same day. cheers, Dan
[Harris]”
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Program Level Status – Operations
• Chandra Source Catalog
– Released version 1 of the CSC on 3/4/09
– Includes 94,676 master Chandra sources (unique sources on the sky),
135,914 individual source observations (detected source regions), 3,921
observation intervals
• CXC Data System Releases
Version
CAT 3.0.2–
Date
Main contents
10/3/08- Chandra Source Catalog
3.0.10
2/25/09
CIAO 4.1
12/15
CIAO Data Analysis release/CfP11 support
CIAO 4.1.1 1/15
CfP11 Pimms Calibration upgrade
DS 7.6.11.10 12/15
Cycle 11 CfP enhancements
DS 7.6.11.11 1/15
DS 7.6.11.12 2/12
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TOO Update / CDO request
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Program Level Status – Operations
• Calibration Database (CalDB) Releases
Two versions of CalDB are maintained: 4.1+ to support CIAO 4.1, and 3.5.x to
support standard data processing and CIAO 3.4 users
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CalDB 3.5.0.1
CalDB 3.5.1
CalDB 4.1.0
CalDB 4.1.1
CalDB 3.5.2
CalDB 3.5.3
CalDB 4.1.2
11/21/08
12/5/08
12/15/08
1/21/09
1/29/09
3/26/09
3/27/09
Ephin GEOM v2 & EPHIN A mod
ACIS Tgain & CTI
ACIS & HRMA mods; major release
HRMA; HETG; PIMMS eff areas
HRMA eff area
ACIS Tgain
ACIS Tgain, other mods
• GO and Fellows Program, CXC Director’s Office
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Cycle 11 request for proposals issued 12/15/08
Observing proposal deadline 3/17/09; 668 GO proposals were received
Grant issuance is current; average time to award < 3 weeks
Einstein Fellows proposal deadline 11/7/08; 157 proposals received for 10
fellowships
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Mission Metrics
MUPS Fuel Usage
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Mission Metrics
Thruster Warm Starts
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Mission Metrics
Observing Efficiency
0.90
0.85
0.80
Processed Observing Efficiency
0.75
0.70
0.65
0.60
0.55
0.50
0.45
0.40
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Data Delivery Effectiveness
As of 4/1/09
As of middle of following month
Month
Number
of Obs
Days to Data Delivery
Min
Avg
Max
Number
Deliv
Number
Outstanding
Number
Deliv
Number
Outstanding
Apr-08
75
0
1
11
75
0
75
0
May-08
201
0
1
4
201
0
201
0
Jun-08
77
0
1
8
77
0
77
0
Jul-08
48
0
1
8
48
0
48
0
Aug-08
58
0
1
8
58
0
58
0
Sep-08
50
0
1
27
48
2
50
0
Oct-08
62
0
1
12
62
0
62
0
Nov-08
73
0
1
17
73
0
73
0
Dec-08
68
0
2
13
68
0
68
0
Jan-09
87
0
1
14
86
1
87
0
Feb-09
160
0
1
5
160
0
160
0
Mar-09
76
0
1
12
76
0
76
0
Comments
Note: Mar-09 figures are as of the first of the following month, not the middle of the following month.
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Grant Award Effectiveness
Month
of Data
Delivery
Federal
Grants
(1,3)
SAO Grants (2)
As of middle of following month
As of 4/1/09
Non-Federal
Grants (3)
No. Grants
Awarded
No.
Outstanding
Avg days to
award (4)
No.
Grants
Awarded
No.
Outstanding
Apr-08
4
13
11
2
11
13
0
May-08
1
12
10
2
12
12
0
Jun-08
1
9
7
2
9
9
0
Jul-08
2
14
14
0
15
14
0
Aug-08
0
3
3
0
10
3
0
Sep-08
2
3
3
0
32
3
0
Oct-08
0
8
5
3
19
8
0
Nov-08
0
18
1
17
5
18
0
Dec-08
0
21
21
0
18
21
0
Jan-09
5
53
42
11
22
53
0
Feb-09
1
16
13
3
15
16
0
Mar-09
1
15
3
12
13
3
12
Outstanding Awards
Proposal no, Comments
10200509 A&B, 10200618, 10500295 A&B, 10500437
A,B,C, 10500639 A&C, 10620535 A&B
(1)1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC.
(2)2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department.
(3)3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month.
(4)4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer.
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