NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 6 March 2001

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – March 6, 2001

 

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

NOAA-15 rev 14612 / W at 0039Z:   Lost HRPT after AOS due
to low angle on 14 meter antenna system.

NOAA-14 rev 31861 / W at 0848Z:   GAC1B received noisy from
spacecraft with 98% of the expected data recovered.  GAC1B received
noisy from spacecraft with 98.9% of the expected data recovered. 
No retransmittal required for either data set.

NOAA-16 AMSUA1 and AMSU-A2 testing will occur on Monday, March 5, through
Thursday, March 8.  On March 5, Cold Calibration Position 3 was successfully
selected for both the AMSU-A1 and AMSU-A2 as the calibration target (at
1657Z: and 1836Z for AMSU-A1 and AMSU-A2 respectively).  On March
8, Cold Calibration Position 4 will be selected for both instruments as
the calibration target.  Questions regarding this test should be referred
to Dong Han at Dong.Han@noaa.gov.

NOAA-16 SBUV testing will occur on Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March
7.  On March 6, Flex Memory Segment 2 (TOMS wavelengths) was selected
at 1215Z.  On March 7, at 1213z, Flex Memory Segment 3 (Cloud Cover
Radiometer wavelengths) will be selected.  The normal SBUV wavelengths
(flex memory segment 0) will re re-selected at 2023Z on March 7. 
All testing will occur out of the stored command table.  Questions
regarding this test should be referred to Dong Han at Dong.Han@noaa.gov.

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

On March 5, during rev 20208 for F14/OPS48, a Cat III data loss was
declared for 7275 spacecraft seconds, 181.875 playback seconds.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

All eclipse ops nominal.  Seasonal solar RFI affected both operational
spacecraft.

At 1701Z on March 5, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed
to solar RFI.  The 1710Z image was lost as a result solar RFI impacts
to commanding at frame start.

At 1348Z and 1922Z on March 5, GOES-10 frame breaks were observed and
attributed to loss of signal sync.

At 2130Z on March 5, the GOES-10 image was degraded to the point of
being unusable due to solar RFI.

To review the eclipse schedules for the GOES-8 and GOES-10 spacecraft,
refer to: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/SSD/GOES/eclipse.html to identify images
canceled to satisfy eclipse or instrument keep-out-zone (KOZ) requirements.

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

Questions or comments to twalsh@nesdis.noaa.gov