Status Report

NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, April 21, 2010

By SpaceRef Editor
April 22, 2010
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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 111

GOES
GOES-EAST TRANSITION NOTE: GOES-13 is scheduled to replace GOES-12 as the operational GOES East mission on April 14th. Specific services are scheduled as follows:

– GOES-13 GVAR data will replace GOES-12 on April 14 at 18:45z. At this time GOES-13 GVAR/LRIT data will be relayed through GOES-12 through April 26th.

– Ancillary comm services (DCS/EMWIN/SAR)will remain on GOES-12 through April 26th.

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

POES
N15 NOTE: On DOY 070 N15 Gyro-2 was turned off due to current spikes which could have also impacted the last operational gyro (gyro-1). As a result of the transition to a reduced gyro attitude control mode users may experience significant geolocation errors in their products.
Engineers are reporting a 2.5 degree average attitude error about the yaw axis.

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
All DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours except OPS 53 Rev 02603 BOSS A was lost at 0042Z 21 April 2010.

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.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov

SpaceRef staff editor.