NOAA/GOES SATOPS Morning Report 10 August 2000

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – August 10, 2000

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

GOES-8 frame breaks occurred on Thursday at 0750Z and 0802Z due to local

thunder storms at Wallops CDA.

A GOES-10 frame break occurred on Wednesday at 1045Z due to local BER.

A GOES-10 frame break occurred on Thursday at 0638Z due to loss of signal

synch at the CDA.  Additional GOES-10 frame breaks occurred on Thursday

at 0722Z and 0753Z due to local thunder storms at Wallops CDA.

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

On Wednesday at ~1115Z a change in the N15 HIRS filter wheel performance

was observed.  The filter wheel operating current dropped ~25mA with

a corresponding decrease in temperature and retention of filter wheel synchronization. 

Engineers continue to monitor the instrument performance.

NOAA-10 was commanded to high speed dwell on rev 72240W at 1057Z on

Wednesday to evaluate capability of PACS to process high-speed dwell telemetry

in Real-time.  The test was successful, no negative operational impacts

were observed and the dwell data is now being analyzed.

HRPT problems were observed on NOAA-15 observed 1138Z and 1317Z. 

BCN TIP data was received without incident.  The HRPT problems are

suspected to reside within the ground system.

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

End-of-life testing continues on OPS 46.  Engineers are monitoring

OLS instrument performance during the cool down period (subsequent to the

OLS Cone Cooler Heater turn off yesterday).

Questions or comments to twalsh@nesdis.noaa.gov