NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Monday, July 10, 2006

J-Day 191

GOES

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

DMSP

All other DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours. No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety. For more DMSP Information please see: http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

POES

N18 05842W – 1824z

Red limits were observed during this pass and subsequent passes on the “MHS” (Microwave Humidity Sounder). NOAA Engineers contacted EUMETSAT Engineering team and were told that there is no health and safety risk to the instrument, but it is possible that the instrument would put itself into fault mode if the current rose too high. Our Engineers modified the limits on the critical fault flags so that they would read yellow if there was one critical fault, and red if there were two. Crews were instructed that if the critical fault composite flagged red, they were to contact engineering. Also crews were reminded that if the instrument goes into fault mode they are to perform a dump of the MHS memory and contact engineering. We plan to meet with NASA and EUMETSAT soon to discuss the problem and to determine the long term response.

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

Questions or comments to Keith.Amburgey@noaa.gov