Status Report

NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Friday, September 03, 2010

By SpaceRef Editor

September 3, 2010

Filed under Earth, NOAA Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report, NOAA Office of Satellite Operations, US

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 246

GOES
Three GOES-13 (EAST) images were missed on DOY 245 due to operational
issues: one N. hemisphere image (1615Z) and two CONUS images (1610Z and 1625Z).

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

POES
NOTE: Due to the hurricane Earl high wind forecast in the Walllops area, the 13 Meter antennas which support POES were stowed on DOY 246. Three N-19 supports were moved to Svalbard and one to Fairbanks.
All N15 – N18 recorder data will be recovered at Fairbanks with the exception of small data gaps on N15 and N16:
Data Gap on N-15 on Day 246 (06:03:40-07:58:45Z) Data Gap on N-16 on Day 246 (06:56:20-08:51:30Z)

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

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
NOTE: Due to the Hurricane Earl high wind forecast in the Walllops area, the WCDA 13 Meter antennas that support Jason-2 were stowed on DOY 246. The two Jason-2 supports scheduled at WCDA between 04:00z and 23:00z were rescheduled to Fairbanks.

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

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov