NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Tuesday, March 27, 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

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GOES

The GOES s/c have entered eclipse season. See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html for the eclipse schedule

All other GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 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

N15 J85 14:17Z GAC2B data loss of 3.9% due to a ground station problem at FCDA

N15 J86 03:31Z GAC3A data loss of 10% due to a ground station problem at FCDA

N18 J86 02:34Z MHS instrument entered motor spin state. Instrument recovered at 05:54Z. Most likely cause of the anomaly was a single event upset over the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)

All other POES operations were nominal over the past 24 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

All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. No nomalies 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