NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 16 November 2000

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – November 16, 2000

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

At ~1100Z to ~1447Z this morning, the FCDAS sustained an operational
power outage that affecting FCDAS support activities during that tie period. 
There was a scheduled power outage from 0830Z to 1015Z (during the Fairbanks
blind period) to enable the electrical contractor to reroute the technical
power to the emergency feeder so a transformer feeding the operations building
could be replaced.  The problems occurred while attempting to restore
power to the operations building.  FCDAS personnel and support contractors
are currently looking into this problem and the operations crews at the
SOCC are trying to minimize data losses as much as possible.

The NOAA-16 APT VTX2 transmitter power was cycled on Wednesday, November
15.  The VTX2 transmitter was turned on during rev 780 at 1722Z and
shut down on rev 782 at 2054Z.  Engineers are compiling a data review
package in anticipation of further anomaly discussions with NASA/GSFC.

NOAA-16 rev 783 / F at 2234Z on November 15:  L3A playback started
before CDA lock on the spacecraft. 56% of the expected data was received. 
Data recovery not possible due to recorder management.

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.

At 1425Z on Wednesday, November 15, a GOES-10 frame break was observed
and attributed to high BER (unknown source).

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 24 hours.

 

Questions or comments to twalsh@nesdis.noaa.gov