NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, March 18, 2011

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

DOY 077

GOES
NOTE: All GOES spacecraft have entered eclipse season. For keep out zone schedules see: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html

All 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

POES
All 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

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

JASON-2
The antenna at Usingen stalled; Eumetsat rebooted the terminal to return
operations to normal. No data were lost but data from rev 12816 (Mar 18
2011 2353Z) were delayed.

All other JASON-2 operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety

ESPC Reported data outage
N-16 GAC3B rev. 54042 was lost due to a ground system anomaly and is
unrecoverable due to DTR (Data Tape Recorder) management.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov