NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Thursday, May 26, 2005

DAY 146

DMSP All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

NOAA-18 Status:

The following instruments have been turned on;

• AVHRR VIS CH (1,2,3A) 5/20/05 140/1515z
• SARR Turn on 5/23/05 143/1620z
• SARP Turn on 5/23/05 143/1745z
• AMSU-A1 Turn on 5/24/05 144/1735z
• AMSU-A2 Turn on 5/24/05 144/1915z
• MHS Turn on 5/25/05 145/1730z

The schedule for the remaining instruments to be turned on is;

• SBUV scheduled 5/27/05 about 1535z
• DCS scheduled 5/27/05 about 1715z
• AVHRR(IR)scheduled 6/5/05 about 1400z
• HIRS scheduled 6/5/05 about 1545z
• SEM scheduled 6/6/05 about 1530z

All POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

GOES

GOES 10 at 1330Z on 25 May: Report of dropouts during 1152, 1200, 1230 & 1245 images. Investigation reveals numerous dropouts occurred during these images due to High BER & CRC errors. Under investigation.

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

Questions or comments to Keith.Amburgey@noaa.gov