NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report – July 5, 2001

POES

NOAA-12 switched to the Redundant Crystal Oscillator sometime between
July 1 and July 4 (limited contact with satellite

preclude exact determination of the time of the anomaly).  This,
non-intrusive, semi-routine anomaly will be corrected by the

engineering staff on a scheduled future contact.

NOAA-11 power management continues to be struggle for the engineering
staff during this eclipse season.  Control Center

personnel continue to monitor and advise staff of variances from nominal.

NOAA-15 noisy downlink produced 98.9% of G5B (non recoverable) and 98.3%
of G3B during playback to Fairbanks of rev

16314, July 3, 1606Z.  G3B was reingested cleanly on Fairbanks
rev 16316, July 3, 1926Z, approximately 200 minutes later than

originally scheduled.

NOAA-16 stored command started the playback of G3A before the Fairbanks
ground system went into acquisition mode.

Satellite controllers were able to stop, rewind, and replay the dataset
in its’ entirety during the remainder of the pass avoiding a

data loss.

Engineering analysis and real-time command capability from SOCC was
interrupted for approximately 30 seconds during a

NOAA-16 contact at Wallops (rev 4025, July 3, 1936Z) due to a temporary
failure of the SOCC frame sync.

NOAA-16 noisy downlink of G3B during rev 4027, July 3, 2307Z was corrected
by a clean replay at 0050Z.

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 48 hours.

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

GOES-East supplied Rapid Scan Operations July 4, 1826Z through July
5, 0026Z for severe weather over the eastern Great

Lakes.

GOES-East had degraded data due to frame breaks on July 3 at 1024Z (loss
of signal sync), 1305Z (unknown) and 1341Z

(unknown).

GOES-West supplied Rapid Scan Operations July 3, 1933Z through July
4, 0333Z for severe weather over Colorado.

GOES-West supplied Rapid Scan Operations July 5, 0033Z through July
5, 0603Z for severe weather over the desert southwest.

GOES-West had degraded data due to a frame break on July 3 at 1121Z. 
During the next available break in the schedule Wallops

switched to the HR-2 antenna after replacing a faulty coaxial switch
on the receiver thought to be the cause of previous degraded

data.

GOES-West had degraded data due to frame breaks on July 4 at 1905Z,
2226Z and 2251Z all from unknown sources.

 

Questions or comments to Tim.Walsh@noaa.gov