NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Monday, April 02, 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

The GOES s/c have entered eclipse season. See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html for the eclipse schedule

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 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

N15 J91 rev 46173 FBKS 0455z Scheduled playback of GAC3A was interrupted at 9540 frames received. ANT=B was placed into Program Track by FBKS technicians when the Autotrack mode malfunctioned. GAC3A was replayed due to a loss of antenna track during playback. The second GAC3A playback was interrupted at LOS of support resulting in data loss of 7%. Total frames recovered: 11200 out of 12040. GAC3A is not recoverable due to DTR management.

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 72 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

OPS54 J89 23:07Z CAT-2 Data loss of 622 s/c seconds due to a processor reset

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours. No nomalies 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