NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report – March 17, 2003 Day 076 

DMSP 

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours. 

POES 

NOAA-12 rev 61475 / W at 0841Z on March 15:  Telemetry indicated that the RXO had switched to the backup.  Command RXOPR was uplinked and telemetry verified that the RXO mode was switched back to primary. 

NOAA-12 rev 61490 / W 0956Z on March 16:  VTX1 was turned off during this pass in preparation for the upcoming N-15 VHF conflict. 

NOAA-15 rev 25160 / F at 0533Z on March 17:  During post-pass transfers, wideband data became very noisy – caused excessive drop locks in both GACs and 30+ gaps (when transferred to CEMSCS).  The data was nominal leaving FCDAS as verified by the FCDAS operator on the relay satellite loopback.  GE Americom was notified and a technician was dispatched to troubleshoot. 

NOAA-17 rev 3777 / F 0652Z:  All data transferred to SOCC from this pass was received nominally. Additionally, the noisy post-pass NOAA-15 transfers from the previous pass were cleanly re-transmitted.  The problem apparently cleared itself because no trouble-shooting or corrective actions were taken by GE Americom. 

POES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours. 

GOES 

At 0136Z on March 16, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed to loss of signal synchronization. 

At 0136Z on March 16, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and attributed to loss of signal synchronization. 

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 176.5 W drifting at a westward rate of ~0.736 degrees per day toward 155 E longitude where it will support the GMS-5 replacement mission in April.  Canberra and Goldstone DSN ranging activities were completed by Friday. 

GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours. 

Other 

At 2210Z on March 14, conducted a Coriolis reship for the NRL. File COR_USAK01_2003_072_23_40_VCID4 was
reshipped.