NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, May 16, 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

At approximately 01:00Z the COMM controllers at the WCDA went down and had to be rebooted. Root cause under investigation. The nine images and three soundings lost as a result of the problem:

• GOES10 images lost = 0115 & 0127Z
• GOES11 images lost = 0100,0115, 0121, 0130
• GOES11 soundings lost = 0101, 0124
• GOES12 images lost = 0100,0115, 0121
• GOES12 soundings lost = 0101

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/index.htm

POES

The Fairbanks CDAS (FCDAS) experienced a very brief power failure on at approximately 2030Z . The problem occurred when the Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) manufacturer’s site representative switched a wrong breaker while performing scheduled maintenance on the UPS system. The resulting power outage reset all systems at the FCDAS. The only POES impact was the late delivery of N18 data to EUMETSAT

All 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 satellites scheduled at Fairbanks were recovered at alternate sites during the the brief FCDA power outage.

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