SATOPS Morning Report – March 6, 2003 Day 065 

DMSP 

OPS49 has not yet converged for precision mode on SCP 1 (i.e. still in basic nominal) subsequent to the SGYRO test activities that were completed yesterday. 

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

POES 

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

GOES 

At 2136Z on March 5, multiple GOES-10 frame breaks were observed and attributed to solar RFI (seasonal). No images were missed. 

Eclipse operations for all spacecraft continue.  Eclipse schedules for GOES-8 and GOES-10 (which can be used to track the day-to-day image deletions due to KOZ and eclipse) can be found at: 
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/koz-eclipse/koz-eclipse.htm 

GOES-12 remains in a test phase, in normal on-orbit mode, drifting at an eastward rate of ~0.33 degrees per day toward the GOES-East position where it will replace GOES-8 in April.  Routine SXI imaging is proceeding along with SXI test exposures. 

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 168.4 W drifting at a westward rate of ~0.75 degrees per day toward 155 E longitude where it will support the GMS-5 replacement mission in April. 

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.