NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, August 10, 2007

Customers or users who want to call to ask about problems or report outages can use the following contacts:

– For questions about data quality (noisy data, dropouts, schedules), GOES or POES products, or status of spacecraft can call the SAB Shift Supervisor at 301-763-8444

– To report an outage or document a problem, call the ESPC Operations Crew Lead at 301-457-5218. All LRIT data users are encouraged to report problems to: LRIT@noaa.gov

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GOES

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For GOES status and other information please see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/index.htm

POES

NOTES: Wallops POES 13M-A antenna is out of service until further notice.

NOTES: Due to recent NOAA-12 severe solar array shunt degradation which prevented the spacecraft from maintaining a safe power balance, management approval was given to safely decommission the s/c. N12 was launched in 1991.

NOAA-12 J222 19:38Z Spacecraft successfully decommissioned – Transmitters turned off, power sources depleted, and on-board computers disabled.

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For a detailed status and description of POES see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/index.htm

DMSP

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For more DMSP Information please see: http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov