NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 19 Mar 2001

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – March 19, 2001

 

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

NOAA-16 recorder 5B testing was completed (as per Information Bulletin
010308.0820).  Initial performance of DTR

5B does not look promising; on a number of occasions the  recorder
did reach BOT, but no data was recovered and several DTR

limit violations were noted.  Analysis continues and a report
will be forthcoming.

On Monday, March 19, NOAA-12 will have all remaining GAC & LAC data
dumped on rev 51147/W.  On this same rev, a new

recurring SCT will be loaded to record STIP data.  At this point,
N-12 will be placed into the standby mode.  NOAA-12 will then

be supported once a day as conflicts allow.

The LAC data previously recorded on NOAA-12 will be moved over to NOAA-14
at 0000Z on 20 March.  The LAC data

previously recorded on NOAA-14 will be moved to NOAA-16 making it the
prime afternoon spacecraft.  The LAC data

previously recorded on NOAA-16 will be deleted since it was for test
purposes for the Navigation Branch of CEMSCS.

With NOAA-14 being a semi-backup spacecraft, the HRPT frequency will
be SWITCHED.  At 0200Z on 20 March, STX-3 will

be shut off and STX-1 (1698MHz) will be turned on and configured for
HRPT transmittal.   Rev 32055/F, AOS at 0210Z will be

the first pass supported under this new transmitter configuration. 
The APT frequency will stay the same (137.62mhz, VTX-2).

No monitor only passes will be taken on NOAA-14 other than Lannion
supports.  NOAA-14 will continue to record GAC data

also.

N-15, N-11 and N10  support will not change.

POES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

 

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

Enabled OPS49 SCRUB flight software (loaded on March 15)  per SCCR
49-043.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

 

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

All eclipse operations nominal.

At 1223Z on March 17, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and attributed
to RFI (unknown source)

At 0812Z on March 18, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed
to high BER (unknown)

At 0810Z on March 19, a GOES-8 frame break was observed and attributed
to loss of signal synchronization.

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