The shiny new Chandra mission control center in Burlington MA, 2019 Jul

Visit by SI teacher program

Wayside: photo c/o C Eagan OCC: photo c/o C Eagan
20190710_133058.jpg Conference room 20190710_133109.jpg Entrance hall 20190710_133111.jpg 20190710_133116_001.jpg
20190710_133127.jpg Chandra orbit stages during launch 20190710_151706.jpg Video wall in the OCC 20190710_151718.jpg Flight controllers explain to the tour group
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20190710_151836.jpg 20190710_152148_001.jpg Status board. Shows callup, begin of track, end of track and DSN dish for each upcoming comm session with the spacecraft. Also shows current s/w running and current spacecraft status. At the time of our visit Chandra was observing the blazar Mkn421 with the ACIS-S/LETG instrument combo. 20190710_152150.jpg 20190710_152203.jpg
20190710_152414.jpg 20190710_154411.jpg ASVT. This hardware is a duplicate of much of the avionics aboard Chandra. It thinks it is in space and responds accordingly - we check out new procedures and run flight controller anomaly simulation exercises using this. 20190710_154413.jpg 20190710_154420.jpg
20190710_154434.jpg This is the backup SIM table. Its sibling in space has the ACIS and HRC cameras mounted on it; it has the translation and focus motion capabilities, and this backup lets us run tests on new procedures. 20190710_154439_001.jpg 20190710_154440.jpg 20190710_154453.jpg
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