NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, October 14, 2005

DAY 287

DMSP

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

For DMSP Information please see: http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

POES

NOAA-18 Rev 2069 at Wallops at 0529z on Oct 14: During this pass GAC 4B was to be recovered. After receiving 891 frames of what was supposed to be 13800 frames, the frame sync lost lock. DDR 4B reached BOM at 05:33:35Z after only 79 seconds of what would be expected to be 180 seconds of play time. Engineers are investigating the problem and report this is not satellite related. Investigation continues.

All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

For a detailed status and description of POES see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/index.htm

GOES

All GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

ECLIPSE:

To review GOES Fall eclipse and KOZ schedules, please reference: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html

Additional information can be found at: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html

For GOES Status and other information please see: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/index.htm

Questions or comments to Keith.Amburgey@noaa.gov