Status Report

NOAA/GOES SATOPS Morning Report 16 August 2000

By SpaceRef Editor
August 16, 2000
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SATOPS MORNING REPORT – August 16, 2000

A complete SOCC power outage will occur today to accommodate power connections
to the new SOCC computer room.  This power outage will occur today
at 10:30am local (1430Z).  A 4-hour block has been scheduled for the
outage; it is hoped that this outage time may be as short as 1-2 hours. 
GOES and POES engineers and operators have been deployed to Wallops CDA
in the event of an unexpected extension of the outage.  The backup
DMSP control center at ESOC is prepared to support DMSP operations during
the outage period.  It is expected that product impacts will not be
impacted.  Coordination has occurred with CEMSCS for GOES/POES data;
the continuous flow of DMSP data to AFWA should be independent to this
activity.

GOES

No change in the status of the GOES spacecraft.

As reported in yesterday’s report, the GOES-11 ZAP storage mode activation
was successfully completed at 0615Z on August 15.  Flight data shows
that the actual major axis and desired spin-up rates were extremely close
to those predicted.  The target angular velocity magnitude was 0.7
deg/sec and 0.698 deg/sec was achieved. The initial spacecraft nutation
cone was about 2.5 degrees.  Congratulations to all involved in the
pre-event analysis and the successful operation.

Between 0917Z and 1133Z on Tuesday, August 15, multiple GOES-8 frame
breaks were observed due to high BER – cause unknown.

At 0121Z on Wednesday, August 16, a GOES-10 frame break was observed
and attributed to loss of signal synch.

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

POES

No change in the status of the POES spacecraft.

NOAA-14 rev 28998, L4B noisy, 96% received.

NOAA-14 rev 29000, G1B noisy, 83% received.

No change in the NOAA-15 HIRS, NOAA-15 AVHRR and NOAA-11 SBUV non-nominal
behavior.

On Thursday, August 17, NOAA-15 will be loaded with a stored command
schedule that will utilize Stored AIP (vs. GAC) as the data playback format. 
This 24-hour test will confirm that the ground system is configured to
utilize this new format and will help determine the feasibility of SAIP
utilization as a longer term playback option during AVHRR anomaly resolution
activities.  To accomplish continuous SAIP coverage, the STX2 will
be utilized to augment STX4 data playbacks.  It is important to note
that continuous NOAA-15 HRPT should not be expected for day 230. 
Continuous HRPT off of STX2 will resume on day 231 (August 18).

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

DMSP

No change in the status of the DMSP spacecraft.

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours.

 

Questions or comments to twalsh@nesdis.noaa.gov

SpaceRef staff editor.