NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 20 Apr 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.

NOAA-16   rev 2963 at 1245Z and rev 2966 at 1731Z on April
19 – CPU1 testing performed during these supports.

Commanding nominal.

NOAA-16   rev 2964 at 1426Z on April 19 – Digital Tape Recorder
5 testing and evaluation performed during this support.

Commanding nominal.

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.

Message sent to inform users of planned GOES-M GVAR data format changes.

GOES-8 – special scan support for Space Shuttle launch operations.

At 1351Z on April 19, GOES-8 image frame break due to unknown RFI.

At 0020Z and 0206Z on April 20, GOES-10 image frame break due to high
bit error rate/address phasing error.

At 0206Z on April 20, GOES-10 image frame break due to high bit error
rate/address phasing error.

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