NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 15 September 2000
SATOPS MORNING REPORT – September 15, 2000
POES
No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.
The complete NOAA-L launch team is now assembled at the SOCC.
A full-day launch briefing, which will include facility briefings, database
and contingency operations reviews, and staffing and outstanding issues
reviews, will occur today. Two full-day dress rehearsals are planned
for tomorrow, September 16 and Monday, September 18. The launch is
currently on target for 1022Z (0622 EDT) on Wednesday, September 20.
The launch window is approximately 10 minutes. Careful monitoring
of the fires at Vandenberg AFB continues; the latest Vandenberg press release
can be found at: http://www.30sw.vafb.af.mil/news_flash/index.html
NOAA-15 AVHRR-MIRP resynchronization tests continue. Additional
tests will be conducted for one or two revs each day through September
18 for continued engineering analysis of the AVHRR instrument. No
impacts to operational data have occurred due to this testing. The
NOAA-15 AVHRR has not been utilized for operational products since July;
potential future use of the AVHRR for operational products can not be predicted
at this time.
POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.
DMSP
No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.
DMSP data retrieval statistics for the week ending September 15 are
reported at 100% (for the third week in a row).
DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.
GOES
No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.
GOES-8 (East) Operations:
The GOES-8 fall eclipse season occurs daily between 0414-0526Z and continues
through October 15th. GOES-8 images cancelled for Eclipse/KOZ – 0401,
0409, 0415, 0431, 0439, 0445, 0501, 0509, 0515, 0531, 0539, 0545Z and 0615Z.
GOES-8 soundings cancelled for Eclipse/KOZ – 0346, 0420, 0446, 0520, 0546
and 0620Z. Full disk coverage during GOES-10 KOZ: 0815Z – 1044Z.
GOES-10 (West) Operations:
The GOES-10 fall eclipse season occurs daily between 0816-0930Z and
continues through October 16th. GOES-10 images cancelled for KOZ/Eclipse:
0800, 0815, 0822, 0830, 0845, 0851, 0900, 0930, 1021 and 1030Z. GOES-10
soundings cancelled for KOZ/Eclipse: 0801, 0824, 0901, 0924 and 1024Z.
Full disk coverage during GOES-8 eclipse 0430Z – 0629Z.
At 1438Z on Thursday, September 14, a GOES-10 frame break was observed
and attributed to RFI (unknown source).
At 1602Z, 1627Z, 1633Z, and numerous times between 1745Z and 1830Z on
Thursday, September 14, multiple GOES-10 frame breaks were observed and
attributed to high BER, most likely caused by grass mowing operations between
the NASA Wallops runway and the NOAA Wallops CDA. The NASA Wallops
facility was informed by the CDA.
At 2307Z on Thursday, September 14 and at 0217Z and 0307Z on Friday,
September 15, GOES-10 frame breaks were observed and attributed to BER
(unknown).
Between 0625Z and 0752Z on Friday, September 15, multiple GOES-10 frame
breaks were observed and attributed thunder storms in the WCDA vicinity.
(Recorded frame breaks at: 0625Z, 0631Z, 0645Z, 0652Z, 0700Z, 0715Z, 0722Z,
0730Z, 0745Z and 0752Z).
Storage Mode Spacecraft Operations:
The GOES-9 fall eclipse season occurs daily between 0612-0724Z and continues
through October 15th. GOES-9 remains in the Z-Axis Precession (ZAP)
storage mode.
The GOES-11 fall eclipse season occurs daily between 0619-0732Z and
continues through October 16th. GOES-11 remains in the Z-Axis Precession
(ZAP) storage mode.
GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.
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