NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Monday, September 19, 2005

DAY 262

DMSP

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

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

POES

NOAA-16 Rev 25732 at Fairbanks at 0225Z on Sept 19: G4A loss due to high speed record problem on IMUX at CDA. DTR management makes G4A not recoverable.

All POES operations were nominal over the past 72 hours.

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

GOES

GOES-10

1733Z on Sept 17: Routine schedule terminated and full disk schedule started to cover for GOES 12 problem.

1858Z on Sept 17: Full disk schedule terminated and routine schedule started.

GOES 12

1530Z on Sept 17: Crews noticed roll error increasing beyond nominal and called engineering personnel to troubleshoot. Crews directed by engineers to proceed with a nominal load shed at 1552z as contingency until it can be determined what caused the problem. Engineers determined problem was a missing schedule related to a recent lunar intrusion and recovery operations began at 1625z. Spacecraft was stabilized at 1815z and reset to normal operations. Missed 1 full disk, 15 partial images, and 3 soundings. Rapid scan started at 2026z and spacecraft fully operational. Investigation into scheduling problem continuing.

All GOES operations were nominal over the past 72 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