NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, March 23, 2012

**ALERT**: GOES-15 (GOES-West) satellite is currently not in operational mode. It went into an unplanned safe mode and most of its instruments were turned off. Recovery activities continue, and engineers are currently investigating this outage. Please note that health of the satellite is not impacted; however, the estimated return to service for GOES-15 (GOES-West) is undetermined at this time. In addition, we are currently experiencing some challenges that are impacting our group e-mail notification distribution. We will return to normal operations as soon as possible, and regret any inconvenience this outage may cause. For more information, please contact our Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, March 23, 2012

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 083

GOES
GOES-15 (west) On DOY81 20:45z, the s/c autonomously transitioned into Sun Acquisition mode. During the anomaly, the s/c attitude was stable
and all s/c subsystems were nominal. Recovery activities are on-going. The estimated time for returning GOES-15 to full service is still no sooner than DOY83 16:00z.

GOES-13(east) Imaging is in full disk mode until GOES-15 returns to full service.

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

ESPC Reported data outage and delays
GOES-13(east) Imaging will be in full disk mode while GOES-15 is out of service. The estimated time for returning GOES-15 to service is still no sooner than DOY83 16:00z.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov