NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Wednesday, September 21, 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 264

GOES
Note: RFI at WCDA starting around 17:04Z. Problem isolated to nearby landscaping work which halted at approximately 17:40z.

GOES-12 DOY263 12:05z full disk image lost & 1131Z sounder image corrupted due to an on-going antenna problem at WCDA. Under investigation.

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
N-18 DOY 262 Sept. 19, 2011 1434z: NOAA-18 reduced gyro software was loaded for testing to occur on Sept. 20, 2011. Testing will be completed later today. Users may see larger than normal attitude errors during this testing period.

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.
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
None to report.

Questions or comments to Ron.Mahmot@noaa.gov