Chandra Aspect Operations

Kalman star watch

Kalman drops through perigee

For a per-perigee view of Kalman drops see the Perigee Kalman watch page.

Kalman drop intervals (valid through 2026:121:10:47:09)

The plot below shows intervals where the number of Kalman stars reported by the OBC (AOKALSTR) was zero or one for at least four updates. Intervals in the last 30 days are plotted in orange.

Intervals in last 5 years longer than 27.0 seconds

Date Duration Obsid Comment
2026:019:09:56:58.251 31.8 32115 SCS107 (Radiation)
2026:019:09:53:14.801 31.8 32115 SCS107 (Radiation)
2026:014:22:32:52.847 31.8 31396 Reacq - poor init star tracking
2025:315:11:03:59.057 31.8 30162 SCS107 (Radiation)
2025:315:11:00:12.532 31.8 30162 SCS107 (Radiation)
2025:269:19:32:50.894 31.8 42093 MUPS checkout
2025:244:21:15:06.470 31.8 28826 SCS107 (Radiation)
2025:244:21:11:02.520 31.8 28826 SCS107 (Radiation)
2025:155:09:41:14.343 31.8 30960 High Background
2025:152:05:56:30.502 31.8 30114 SCS107 (Radiation)
2025:144:16:44:41.481 165.0 30930 Momentum Unload
2025:083:21:38:40.010 31.8 30869 SCS107 (Radiation)
2025:012:14:42:16.756 31.8 28203 SCS107 (Manual LETG anom)
2024:326:18:54:46.488 31.8 28831 SCS107 (txings)
2024:301:09:31:09.622 31.8 30586 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:301:09:27:03.622 31.8 30586 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:295:14:15:27.738 31.8 28052 SCS107 (txings)
2024:283:03:39:01.494 31.8 30561 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:283:03:35:21.119 31.8 30561 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:265:19:00:47.620 31.8 43126 MUPS-A checkout
2024:265:18:53:12.520 31.8 43126 MUPS-A checkout
2024:205:03:16:23.205 31.8 29443 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:160:02:34:38.595 31.8 28470 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:131:15:42:27.139 31.8 28699 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:084:11:39:29.426 31.8 27226 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:035:03:22:45.698 32.8 27349 High Background -> NSM
2024:035:03:20:22.198 31.8 27349 High Background
2024:022:19:54:53.402 31.8 26787 SCS107 (Radiation)
2024:022:19:51:12.002 31.8 26787 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:309:12:35:50.743 31.8 29029 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:273:19:37:25.068 31.8 44128 MUPS-A checkout
2023:113:22:38:54.057 31.8 27810 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:075:17:45:35.573 31.8 27724 MUPS-B checkout
2023:074:11:43:03.715 31.8 27724 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:074:11:39:11.040 31.8 27724 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:058:03:20:21.895 31.8 25892 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:058:03:16:17.945 31.8 25892 SCS107 (Radiation)
2023:047:06:14:08.417 30.8 0 Safe Mode
2023:040:15:31:43.726 31.8 27160 MUPS-A A4 checkout
2022:301:09:43:42.903 31.8 27520 ACA high background
2022:301:09:41:48.103 31.8 27520 ACA high background
2022:231:18:42:31.755 31.8 45317 CTU reset => NSM
2022:224:02:18:45.837 31.8 45339 BSH recovery
2022:224:02:17:32.037 32.8 45339 many repeats...
2022:224:01:42:42.062 31.8 45339 BSH recovery
2022:223:13:46:17.662 31.8 45339 High IR zone => BSH
2022:215:15:25:37.699 31.8 45357 High IR zone
2022:087:12:45:37.583 31.8 24252 SCS107 (Radiation)
2022:040:17:55:32.208 31.8 25445 SCS107 (HRC Anomaly)
2021:301:16:41:03.333 31.8 26166 SCS107 (Radiation)
2021:301:16:37:12.708 29.7 26166 SCS107 (Radiation)
2021:244:10:39:09.658 31.8 24520 SCS107 (Manual / LETG Anomaly)

Analysis data

The scripts and data used in this analysis are in https://github.com/sot/kalman_watch.


Last modified:05/02/26



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