NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report March 24, 2003 Day 083

DMSP

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

POES

NOAA-17 rev 3876 / F at 0557z on March 24:  An IMUX issue at the Fairbanks CDA resulted in loss of HRPT recording.

GOES

At 0540z on March 23, a GOES-10 frame break was observed and attributed to loss of signal synchronization.

Eclipse operations for all spacecraft continue. Eclipse schedules for GOES-8 and GOES-10 (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

GOES-12 remains in a test phase, in normal on-orbit mode, drifting at an eastward rate of ~0.33 degrees per day toward the GOES-East position where it will replace GOES-8 in April.  Routine SXI imaging is proceeding along with SXI test exposures.  At 1807z on March 21, the GOES-12 schedule was suspended for magnetometer testing.  The normal imaging schedule was resumed at 1926z on March 21.

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 178.4 E drifting at a westward rate of ~0.723 degrees per day toward 155 E longitude where it will support the GMS-5 replacement mission in April.

Major upcoming GOES milestones (Note:  These dates are subject to change!)

• April 1:  GOES-12 becomes operational GOES-East for imaging/sounding at 1815z
• 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

GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.