NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report May 15, 2003 Day 135

DMSP

OPS49 remains in Nominal Basic mode.

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

GOES-8 continues its westward drift at 1.06 deg/day.

The GOES-9 East West maneuver, originally scheduled for May 13 at 0217z, was postponed.  Plans are being made to recycle AOCE2 (or possibly swap to AOCE1) later this week while in Safe Hold Mode.  A May 22 operational start date for GOES-9 imaging operations is still planned.

All GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.