NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 18 Apr 2001

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – April 18, 2001

No significant effects noted on any spacecraft from continued elevated
solar/geomagnetic activity.  All observed effects have

been noted in the past and have not resulted in adverse conditions
on the spacecraft.  Additional information on the current state of
the space environment can be observed on:   http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

The new GDP frame syncs (installed earlier this week) continue to perform
nominally.

NOAA-14 rev 32465 / F at 0308Z on April 17:  GAC2B and LAC5A both
received noisy from spacecraft with 98.2% of

GAC2B and 91.0% of LAC5A recovered.  Another recovery attempt
was not possible for either data set due to recorder

management.

The scheduled polar global software release, Version 8.0, was successfully
distributed at approximately 0700Z this morning.

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

OPS45 rev 04214 at 1232Z on April 17- Sent command ‘cmd otchof’ as per
SCCR#45-160 to disable the T-Channel cone

cooler heater under engineering direction.  This heater was cycled
in an attempt for decontamination purposes.  Subsequent

passes were monitored to confirm cone cooler cool-down and equilibrium.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

GOES-8 East/West station keeping maneuver #34 was executed successfully
yesterday, April 17 at 2001Z.  The commanded

thruster firing duration was 7.6 seconds.

The GOES-8 storage heater 3, Ox tank heater 1 and Fuel Tank Heater 1
were turned off at 2053Z on April 17 as per normal

post-eclipse season procedure.

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At 1428Z on April 17 – a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed
to loss of signal synchronization.

At 0613Z and 0720Z on April 17 – GOES-10 image frame breaks due to high
bit error rate at CDA.  Reason for BER

unknown.

To review the imaging 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 instrument keep-out-zone (KOZ) requirements.

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

Questions or comments to Tim.Walsh@noaa.gov