NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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

DOY 356

GOES
Note: The GOES-12 Sounder filter wheel issue is intermittent and can continue to cause pixel drop outs in data.

The (separate) GOES-12 Sounder noise has not gotten worse since last reported in November, however, it remains an issue which users should be aware of, most significantly in the shortwave (3 – 5 um) bands 13-18. Detector 2 data on the GOES-12 Sounder has exhibited the most noise.

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 96 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

POES
NOTE: The IJPS Trans-Atlantic link betweem EUMETSAT to SOCC was down on December 19 from 0200z to 1645z.

N19 DOY 353 14:52Z MHS instrument entered safe mode due to a single event upset occurring over the South Atlantic Anomaly. The instrument was successfully recovered and MHS operations resumed on DOY 355 at 19:18z.

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 96 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

DMSP
All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 96 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety.
For more DMSP Information please see:
http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp.html

JASON-2
All JASON-2 operations were nominal over the past 96 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov