NOAA/GOES SATOPS Morning Report 6 November 2000
SATOPS MORNING REPORT November 6, 2000
POES
No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.
NOAA-16 operations nominal.
A meeting will be held today with NASA, NOAA (operations and products)
and vendor representatives to review the NOAA-15 AMSU-A Channel 14 anomaly
and to discuss any additional operational actions required to address this
event.
NOAA15 rev 12872 / F at 1736z on November 3: Executed CP to command
MIRP to AVHRR sync, record L2B for 6 minutes, return to Internal sync,
and playback L2B (for AVHRR analysis). Operation was nominal.
NOAA-12 rev 49238 / F at 1859z on November 5: The Stored Table
Load failed three times during this pass. Due to the fact that there
was only 1 min., 40 sec. of commanding time during this pass, no further
attempts were possible and the spacecraft did not have a stored command
table running at AOS. Resultant data losses: L2A, L4A, L5B,
G1B, G3A (short). On rev 49240 / W at 2202z, the table was loaded
and G4B was fully recovered via manual procedure.
POES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
DMSP
No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.
DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
GOES
No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.
A two-day test to utilize the WBU (Wallops Back-up) site at GSFC for
GOES-10 operations was successfully completed last Friday, November 3.
During this test, SOCC personnel coordinated the effort and controlled
GOES-10 from SOCC GIMTACS workstations using SOCC/WBU equipment.
Wallops CDA personnel staffed and operated the WBU facility continuously
for ~45 hours. The fail over time back to WCDA was November 3 at 1640z.
The test was largely successful with the primary exception being the ability
to perform range calibration activities.
At 2218z and 2224z on Friday, November 3, GOES-8 frame breaks were observed
and attributed to local BER (unknown cause).
At 1739z on Saturday, November 4, a GOES-8 frame break was observed
and attributed to loss of signal sync.
At 0019z and 0707z on Sunday, November 5, GOES-8 frame breaks were observed
and attributed to local RFI (unknown source).
At 0931z on Monday, November 6: The GOES-8 schedule suspended
due to TLMCHK failure. Investigation revealed that TACTS2 was the problem.
Reconfigured for TACTS3. The schedule was resumed at 0938z. Lost
0931z CONUS.
At 0856z on Saturday, November 4, a GOES-10 frame break was observed
and attributed to loss of signal sync.
At 2048z on Sunday, November 5, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and
attributed to loss of signal sync.
GOES-9 and GOES-11 remain in the Z-Axis Precession (ZAP) storage mode
at ~105 deg W.
GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.
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