NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Monday, March 13, 2006

Day 71

NOTES: Monday 0722z- SOCC lost commercial power for approximately 2.5 hrs and supported operations on backup power during that time.

POES

N18 04170W – 0520z (J-day 70) Lost approximately 92.5% of GAC 4A playback due to ground station related problems.

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

GOES

GOES 10 :

1326Z (J-day 71) – Sounder filter wheel current flagged red high intermittently for about 2 1/2 minutes then returned to a nominal level. A mild disturbance (-.04 degree) was observed in the ES pitch data during the filter wheel current spiking. SPS operator at WCDA reports several sync losses in Sounder payload data during the event.

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/index.htm

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

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

Questions or comments to Keith.Amburgey@noaa.gov