NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, April 29, 2005

DAY 119

DMSP

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

NOAA-17 Rev 14779 at Wallops at 1457Z on April 28: At 14:56:10Z the stored command table turned STX2 off instead of turning it on. STX2 was manually turned on at 15:03:36Z resulting in 8976 of 13800 frames of G2B being recovered. G2B is not recoverable due to DTR management. Engineers and scheduling are investigating.

All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

*GOES-12 at 0501Z on April 29: Lost 0509, 0531, 0539 imager and the 0446, 0520 sounder due to procedural problems related to keep out zone. Engineering investigating.

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

Questions or comments to Keith.Amburgey@noaa.gov