NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report – April 2, 2003  Day 092 

GOES-12 is now operational as GOES-East.  The transition (operationally and from a products perspective) was exceedingly smooth.  Thanks to everyone involved and to GOES-8 for (almost) nine years of great support! 

DMSP 

OPS48 rev 30916 R+11 from FBKS-B at 2003Z on April 1:  SCCR #48-102 was executed to load a QRC Table with commands to restack PR2 – will take effect on April 2 between rev 30929 (R+10) and rev 30930 (R+11). 

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

POES 

All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

GOES 

At 1316Z on April 1, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and attributed to RFI (unknown source). 

At 1814Z on April 1, the GOES-East mission was successfully transitioned from GOES-8 to GOES-12. GOES-12 will continue to drift at an eastward rate of ~0.33 degrees per day toward 75 degrees W until the stop maneuver is performed on approximately April 22. 

At 1822Z on April 1, the GOES-8 storage heater 5 was turned on as per SCP to bring SARR temps back into green limits. 

At 0836Z on April 2, a GOES-12 frame break was observed and attributed to RFI (unknown source). 

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 171.9 E drifting at a westward rate of ~0.718 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 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 

All GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.