NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report April 29, 2003 Day 119

DMSP

OPS45 rev 44689 from  HULA-A at 1611z on April 28:  Changed SADLAG from +15 deg to +42 deg to shade the SSMT2 per SCCR 45-178.

OPS49 PRADS remains diverged  due to an unstable gyro 3 bias.

All other DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

NOAA-17 rev 4379 / W at 1454z on April 28:   At pass rise NSTX3PWR flagged red low.  Power levels dropped from a nominal 8W to 2.5W.  Engineers are investigating.  G3A playback was short  93% recovered.

NOAA-17 rev 4380 / W at 1634z on April 28:  Stopped and forward played back G3A.  Recovered 100% of G3A from rev 4379.

NOAA-17 rev 4391 / W at 1051z on April 29:  At pass rise NSTX4PWR flagged red low.  Power levels dropped from a nominal 7.5W to around 6.0W.  Engineers are investigating.

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

All  GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES-9 performance continue to be nominal.  It will support the JMA mission starting May 22.

GOES-8 drift start westward from 75 W will start on April 30 at 1000z.

Keep-out-Zones (KOZ) operations for GOES-East will continue through day 120.  Schedules for GOES-East and GOES-West (which can be used to track the day-to-day image deletions due to KOZ) can be found at: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/koz-eclipse/koz-eclipse.htm