NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Thursday, July 05, 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

J186

Notes: Notified by EUMETSAT that a METOP-A anomaly occurred on J185 at 17:04Z. MHRPT turned off until further notice due to a transmitter temperature spike. User data products from the s/c recorders unaffected. No further details of the anomaly are known at this time.

GOES

NOTE: J186 00:11Z WCDA HR-1 antenna temporarily down due to a fire in the antenna shed. The situation was addressed safely and timely.

GOES-10 J186 Lost 00:15Z image, 00:27Z image, and 00:31 sounding due to the above mentioned fire.

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 48 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

N18 J186 10:91Z Only 71.4% of LAC4A recovered due to a scheduling problem.

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 48 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 J186 04:04Z CAT1 data loss of 6558 spacecraft seconds due to a user problem.

All other DMSP operations were nominal over the past 48 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 Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov