NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 23 Feb 2001

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – February 23, 2001

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

NOAA-14 rev 31706W at 0917Z on February 23:  LAC5B was received
noisy from the spacecraft with 80% of the data received.  A replay
from the spacecraft was possible on rev 31707 / W, but was not requested
by CEMSCS.

The NOAA-16 VTX2 APT Transmitter will be turned off due to a NOAA-12
VHF conflict via the stored table on February 27 at 1700Z.

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.

Pre-eclipse heater commanding (propulsion line, tank heaters, etc.)
will occur today for GOES-8 and GOES10.  There will be no impacts
to data.

The GOES-M launch and orbit-raising simulation (an important distiction)
concludes today, February 23.  Other launch readiness activities continue
on schedule for an anticipated mid-July launch.

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

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