NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report – April 9, 2003 Day 099

DMSP

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

GOES-12 will continue to drift at an eastward rate of ~0.28 degrees per
day toward 75 degrees W until the stop maneuver is performed on
approximately April 26.  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 167.5 E drifting at a westward rate
of ~0.71 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 14:  GOES-9 removal from storage
• April 14-19:  GOES-9 GVAR begins, INR startup with a 0.7 deg/day drift
• April 26:  GOES-12 stops at 75 deg W; ancillary communication services (DCS, WEFAX, EMWIN, SAR) become operational.
• April 30:  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.