NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report March 11, 2003 Day 070

DMSP

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

NOAA-14 rev 42231 / F at 1602z on March 10:  Executed SCR 61 as prescribed in CROH Procedure 021216.1232 to restore SEM TED to operational service; necessitated by the anomaly caused by the high ionic flux saturation detected during the previous pass.

NOAA-16 rev 12709 / W at 0849z on March 12:  Wallops CDA had problems recovering data from IMUXs on antenna systems ‘A’ and ‘B’.   LAC4A, LAC1A,
LAC3B and GAC1B were not recoverable due to recorder management.  LAC3A was later recovered on rev 12711 / F.

GOES

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.  SXI testing took place yesterday between 1908z and 2106z.

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 172.1 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.