NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report April 1, 2003 Day 091

DMSP

All  DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

All  POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

GOES-12 continues to drift at an eastward rate of ~0.33 degrees per day toward the GOES-East position where it will replace GOES-8 today, April 1, between 1800 and 1815z.   The GOES-12 stop maneuver is scheduled for approximately April 22.  Thanks to GOES-8 for almost 9 years of great support!!

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 172.6 E drifting at a westward rate of ~0.720 degrees per day toward 155 E longitude where it will support the GMS-5 replacement mission in April.

Eclipse operations for all spacecraft continue. Eclipse schedules for GOES-East and GOES-West (which can be used to track the day-to-day image deletions due to KOZ and eclipse) can be found at:  http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/koz-eclipse/koz-eclipse.htm

Major upcoming GOES milestones (Note:  These dates are subject to change)

• April 1:  GOES-12 becomes operational GOES-East for imaging/sounding at 1815z
• April 15:  GOES-9 removal from storage
• April 16-19:  GOES-9 GVAR begins, INR startup with a 0.7 deg/day drift
• April 22:  GOES-12 stops at 75 deg W; ancillary communication services (DCS, WEFAX, EMWIN, SAR) become operational.
• April 24:  GOES-8 drift start westward from 75 W
• April 25:  GOES-9 drift stop at 155 E