NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 6 June 2001

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

NOAA-16 produced a “Mystery Playback” (bit sync lock, no frame snyc
lock) of GAC data from recorder 4A during the 1300Z
Pass, 3626, at Fairbanks.  The recorder was rewound and a successful
recovery was made during the next contact, approximately
100 minutes late.

NOAA-14 produced a noisy recording of GAC from recorder 3A on the mid
s-band downlink at Fairbanks during the 1406Z Pass,
33149.  The recorder was rewound and a fully successful recovery
was made during the next contact, again, approximately 100
minute late.

POES command operations were impacted by two outages of the T-1 connection
to Fairbanks.  Outages occurred 1815Z-1950Z
and 2035Z-2050Z.  The CDA conducted all normal Pass activity (NOAA-15
33149 and NOAA-14 33152) while SOCC
monitored telemetry stripped out of the wide band data and communicated
over landline links.

NOAA-15 produced a noisy playback of GAC from recorder 4B during the
0558Z Pass, 15924, at Fairbanks.  Sufficient time was
available during the contact to rewind and replay the data cleanly,
avoiding a delay in processing.

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-East data was impacted locally (Suitland and NOAA Science Center)
during the 1730Z image, cause unknown.

GOES-East command authority was transferred to Wallops 2032-2041Z due
to a loss of telemetry at SOCC attributed to a
possible T-1 link problem.

GOES-West Sounding scheduled for 1601Z start was lost when the schedule
suspended at 1600Z due to a crash of Wallops
ground equipment (TACTS-3).  TACTS-1 was selected at 1606Z restoring
telemetry and nominal operations.

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.  GOES-East
provided Rapid Storm Operation coverage for Tropical
Storm Allison from 0126Z through 0926Z.

OTHER

The T-1 line problem has been escalated and troubleshooting was conducted
during the POES blind period (0800Z-1030Z).
Further testing will continue during this same period tonight.

The Mars Odyssey UHF transmission test reflected minimal impact in GOES
telemetry and no apparent impact in POES
telemetry.
 
 

Questions or comments to Tim.Walsh@noaa.gov