NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Monday, August 22, 2011

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 234

At approximately 1152z on Aug 22, one Power Distribution Unit (PDU)exceeded capacity at NSOF and shut down. When re-powered, the PDU was at 99% capacity, so operations for GOES, POES, and DMSP were failed over to alternate sites to avoid data loss. Jason-2 operations were adversely affected by the PDU overload. Non-essential equipment was powered down to reduce the PDU load to <85% at approx. 1211z. Investigation into the underlying cause of the PDU overload is underway. GOES
GOES-12 DOY 233 00:47z experienced an Imager instrument cycle slip.

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 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
All POES operations were nominal over the past 72 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
LION-B site continues to experience issues; all data was recovered from failed supports.

All other DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 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 72 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety

ESPC Reported data outage and delays
Aug 21 DOY 233 ESPC did not receive some GOES-WEST (GOES-11) sectors from 2230z until 2300z for AKNATL, AKREG, HAWNATL, HAWREG, WCONUS, and NHEMI due to thunderstorms experienced at WALLOPS CDA.

Additional notifications will be sent if the PDU outage affected specific products.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov