NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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 110

GOES
NOTE: Spring 2011 Eclipse season has ended. For keep out zone schedules see:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/eclipse.html

All 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

POES
Note: Intermittent problem with POES workstations hanging. Still under
investigation.

DOY 110 20 April 2011 0128 UTC: NOAA-17 spacecraft instrument processor
began receiving corrupted output from the onboard AMSU Information
Processing (AIP) unit that receives and formats the AMSU instrument
data. Engineers are investigating.

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

DMSP
DOY 109 19 April 2011 1319 UTC: OPS-49 Rev. 58663 User declared a loss
of 220 sec. spacecraft and 55 sec. playback at LION-B, due to conflict
with higher priority spacecraft.

All other DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 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 24 hours.
No anomalies affecting product delivery or s/c health & safety

ESPC Reported data outage and delays
DOY 109 19 April 2011 2258 UTC: ESPC received only 51% of the scheduled
NOAA-15 HRPT REV. 67244 data due to a low elevation antenna tracking
problem at Wallops that has not recurred.

DOY 110 20 April 2011 0128 UTC: ESPC is not receiving any NOAA-17
AMSU-A2/B data due to spacecraft instrument processor issue; still under
investigation.

DOY 110 20 April 2011 0137-0552 UTC: ESPC did not receive UWAX, URAX,
and UWIX portions of the ERS-2 data. Data provider was contacted and
resolved the problem.

DOY 110 20 April 2011 0700-0915 UTC: ESPC did not receive any MET-9
products due to a communication line problem between Germany and the
U.S. The line problem has been fixed and the products were confirmed to
be of operational quality at 1200 UTC.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov