NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 10 Apr 2001

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

NOAA-14 rev 32344 / F at 1342z on April 9: Data losses due to
tracking of NOAA-10 instead of
NOAA-14 (spacecraft currently less than one degree apart). The
FCDAS Senior Engineer is
coordinating with SOCC Scheduling to troubleshoot and prevent
additional occurrences.
Engineering will also consider potential NOAA-10 configuration
changes (such as shutting down
all of the transmitters or switching HRPT to mid S-band). The CDA
captured the following data
percentages: HRPT 60.9%, GAC5A 59%, GAC3A 99% (using the Backup B
Antenna), and
LAC2B 0%. None of the lost data is recoverable due to recorder
management.

NOAA-14 rev 32352 / F at 0304z on April 10: LAC1B was noisy from
the spacecraft with
97.7% of the expected data received. When the post-pass transfer
was performed, the data from
the IMUX had 95.8% of the data available. During the pass, the
data quality did not justify a
replay from S/C, but when the post-pass transfer did justify a
playback, the S/C replay was no
longer possible due to recorder management.

The CPU-A CIU Timing Fix flight software patch for NOAA-16 is
scheduled to be uploaded on
Thursday, 12 April. The upload pass is at 1400z, and the enable
pass will be at 1710z. CPU-A
performance will be monitored for an extended period of time
before it is re-enabled as a viable
backup to CPU-B. The POC for this operation is Jim Walters/EMOSS
Engineering.

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

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.

At 1835z on April 9, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and
attributed to loss of signal
synchronization.

At 0603z on April 10, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and
attributed to address phasing
error.

All eclipse operations nominal.

GOES-8 East/West station keeping maneuver #34 is scheduled for
April 12, 2001 at 2001Z. The
commanded thruster firing duration is 7.0 seconds. GOES-10 will
provide full disk imaging for
approximately 2 hours during the GOES-8 maneuver period.

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 Tim.Walsh@noaa.gov