NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, August 24, 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 235

Due to the 5.9 earthquake in the Washington Metro area, the NSOF (NOAA
Satellite Operations Facility) was evacuated. A skeleton emergency crew remained at NSOF while experts verified there was no structural damage to the building. Operations continued and there were no data losses to report. Specifics on fail over times are provided in each section below.

GOES
Failover due to the earthquake: DOY 235 18:00z All GOES operations were moved to WCDA immediately. From 20:00 through 22:00z GOES-11, GOES-12, and GOES-15 operations were back to NSOF to address s/c health & safety requirements. DOY 236 at 13:00z – GOES11, GOES12, GOES13 operations moved back to NSOF. GOES-14, and GOES-15 ops will remain at WCDA through 23:30z for training purposes..

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
Failover due to the earthquake: DOY 235 WCDA took over all POES supports at 1800Z . On DOY 236 11:00z partial operations were moved back to NSOF. All POES ops are scheduled to move back to NSOF at on DOY 236 22:00z.

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
Failover due to the earthquake: DOY 235 ESOC took over all supports at 1800Z. DOY 236 14:28z all operations were moved back to NSOF.

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
There was no failover due to the earthquake however, CNES was alerted to the possibility if a complete NSOF evacuation was required.

All other 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
No data losses to report. Operations remained at ESPC however, the backup ESPC (CIP) was activated at 04:30z. CIP will remain activated through the weekend.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov