NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 29 September 2000

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – September 29, 2000

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

The NOAA-16 Orbital Verification (OV) Test Team is continuing to report
routine operations.  Work is proceeding in anticipation of NASA turning
over health and safety operations of NOAA-16 to NOAA today at 2:30 EDT. 
Instrument verification activities continue.  No additional instrument
turn-on activities will be conducted until the second week in October: 
HIRS 10/10/00, SEM 10/11/00, AVHRR (IR) 10/11/00.

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

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 – 0345,
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.

At 0015Z on Friday, September 29, a GOES-8 frame break was observed
and attributed to loss of signal synchronization.

At 0657Z on Friday, September 29, a GOES-8 frame break was observed
and attributed to an SPL bit sync problem.  The bit sync was reset
and operations continued.

At 0703Z on Friday, September 29, a GOES-8 frame break was observed
and attributed to loss of signal synchronization.

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.

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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