Status Report

NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 12 Mar 2001

By SpaceRef Editor
March 12, 2001
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POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

Cold Calibration Position 1 will be selected today, March 12, to return the AMSU-A1 and
AMSU-A2 instruments to their pre-test configuration.   These reconfigurations will
occur on the 1724z and 1904z supports for the AMSU-A1 and AMSU-A2, respectively.
Questions regarding this test should be referred to Dong Han at Dong.Han@noaa.gov.

NOAA-15 rev 14675 / W at 1126z on March 10:    GAC5B
received noisy from spacecraft with 77% of the expected data recovered.
GAC5B was successfully  re-ingested on Rev 14676 / W 1307z with 100% of the expected data recovered.

NOAA-14 rev 31924 / F at 1941z on March 10:   GAC5A received
noisy from spacecraft with 98.1% of the expected data recovered.  No further attempts required.

NOAA-15 rev 14691 / W at 1424z on March 11:  GAC3B received
noisy from spacecraft with 98% of the expected data recovered. GAC3B was
successfully re-ingested on Rev 14691 / F at 1559z with 100% data recovered.

NOAA-16 rev 2416 / W at 1735z on March 11:   GAC4B short
with 85.7% recovered on prime 14.2M system, due to the 14.2M antenna reaching
end of track 1 minute 8 seconds early.  99.3% of the GAC4B data recovered
from 13M/IMUX system.

NOAA-12 rev 51033 / W at 2206z:   LAC4A received noisy from
spacecraft with 78% recovered from prime 14.2M system.  LAC4A was
recovered on rev 51034 / F at 2355z:   LAC4A was replayed from
the IMUX and 98.5% of the data was recovered.

NOAA-15 rev 14697 / W at 0001z on March 12:  Late acquisition of
the spacecraft on the heritage antenna system was caused by error in
tracking times and resulted in only 32% of GAC2B being received.  The 13M
ìB” antenna, in use as a back-up and still undergoing certification testing,
received and recorded all expected data on the IMUX.

POES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

 

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

 

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

At 1107z on Friday, March 9, GOES-8 and GOES-10 operations were
impacted by a T-1 outage between SOCC and Wallops CDA.  Voice coordination
was used to smoothly transition operational support to CDA.  By
1148z, the outage was fixed and operational control was transitioned back to
SOCC for both spacecraft.  No payload data was lost during this event.

All eclipse operations nominal.

At 1657z on March 9, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed
to loss of signal sync.

At 2320z on March 9, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed
to high BER (unknown reason).

At 2136z on March 9, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and
attributed to high BER (solar RFI suspected).

At 1328z on March 11, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and
attributed to high BER (unknown reason).

At 1736z on March 11, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and
attributed to address phasing error.

At 2102z on March 11, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and
attributed to loss of signal sync.

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 72 hours.

Questions or comments to Tim.Walsh@noaa.gov

SpaceRef staff editor.