NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report 4 Apr 2001

SATOPS MORNING REPORT – April 4, 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; see NOAA-11 SBUV change
below.

The NOAA-11 SBUV grating drive is operating in the the total ozone
measurement region (-320 to -699). It will operate in

this region until further notice. It is hoped that this region
will remain agreeable to this 12 year old instrument.

NOAA-16 rev 02738 / F at 1352Z on April 3: Executed Command Procedure
per SCP to dump memory words from CPU1

to verify state (in anticipation of upcoming software load).

Frame Sync Final Acceptance Testing Phase 3 continues as per procedure.

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.

All eclipse operations nominal. No frame breaks noted.

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