NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report April 8, 2003 Day 098

DMSP

OPS49/ rev 17141/08/FBKS-B/1735Z on April 7: Rose on support with CH2, CH11 and CH14 on. Unable to confirm that CH8 was on. Troubleshooted ground system. Contact was never made with the spacecraft on this rev. CAT-1 data loss of 107 playback seconds/6108 spacecraft seconds and CAT-2 TF data loss of 107 playback seconds/428 spacecraft seconds. It was determined that changes in MPSS reduced the stored command table and main memory load length which caused the loads to expire prior to this rev. The problem has been corrected.

OPS49/ rev 17142/09/FBKS-B/1916Z on April 7: Recovery from last rev. Commanded CH8 on at rise. Turned RDS off (ch14) and RTD off (ch2). Brought down 10 min of LF data from PR4 and 5/12 smooth from PR3. Loaded all memories and manually turned SCTS on after loading. Brought down another 10 min of LF data at HULA. Due to Main Memory being off since 1616Z TF data scheduled for this rev was not recorded resulting in a data loss of 176 pbk sec/ 704 spacecraft sec.

OPS49/ rev 17143/10/POGO-C/2049Z on April 7: Due to having to play back the same recorder that was supposed to be in record at the time (PR3) to synchronize the smooth recorders with the schedules, we incurred a final CAT-1 smooth data loss of 10.75 playback seconds and 430 spacecraft seconds.

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

POES

NOAA-17 rev 04081/W at 1606 on April 7: Uplinked commands per RCP 17_73_1 to configure STX4 to downlink TIP data for SVALBARD downlink test.

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

GOES

On GOES-9 at 1113Z on April 8: ZAP re-spin was completed.

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. Until GOES-12 arrives on-station, the GOES-12 will be retransmitted via GOES-8 (to minimize impacts to the users).

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 170.5 E drifting at a westward rate of ~0.717 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.