NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Thursday, June 23, 2005

DAY 174

DMSP

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

NOAA-17 Rev 15561 at Wallops at 1401Z on June 22: The last few seconds of the LAC 4B playback was noisy due to playing near LOS. Post-ship from antenna system B resulted in 3830 of 4140 frames with 10 gaps to DPSS while antenna system A resulted in 4004 frames with 20 gaps.

NOAA-17 Rev 15571 at Fairbanks at 0629z on June 23: The “C” antenna lost track for 18 seconds during this pass and the FCDAS had to go to program track to reacquire N17. 24% of L1A was lost due to tracking problem and there was an 18 second gap in the HRPT. DTR management prevents a replay of L1A.

All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

All GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

Questions or comments to Keith.Amburgey@noaa.gov