NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Customers or users who want to call to ask about problems or report outages can use the following contacts:

– For questions about data quality (noisy data, dropouts, schedules), GOES or POES products, or status of spacecraft can call the SAB Shift Supervisor at 301-763-8444

– To report an outage or document a problem, call the ESPC Operations Crew Lead at 301-457-5218. All LRIT data users are encouraged to report problems to: LRIT@noaa.gov

DOY 110

GOES GOES-EAST TRANSITION NOTE: GOES-13 is scheduled to replace GOES-12 as the operational GOES East mission on April 14th. Specific services are scheduled as follows: – GOES-13 GVAR data will replace GOES-12 on April 14 at 18:45z. At this time GOES-13 GVAR/LRIT data will be relayed through GOES-12 through April 26th.

– Ancillary comm services (DCS/EMWIN/SAR)will remain on GOES-12 through April 26th.

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For GOES status and other information please see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes

POES N15 NOTE: On DOY 070 N15 Gyro-2 was turned off due to current spikes which could have also impacted the last operational gyro (gyro-1). As a result of the transition to a reduced gyro attitude control mode users may experience significant geolocation errors in their products. Engineers are reporting a 2.5 degree average attitude error about the yaw axis.

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For a detailed status and description of POES see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes

DMSP All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For more DMSP Information please see: http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

JASON-2 All JASON-2 operations were nominal over the past 24 hours except a problem at the Usingen ground station that caused a minor delay in transmission of one pass. No data were lost and Usingen is nominal again.

No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov