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Satellites Impacted: All NOAA POES and Jason-2 Products Impacted: All products from NOAA POES and Jason-2 Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 12, 2010 0000 UTC -------------------------- Details:The Office of Satellite Operations (OSO) and Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) have developed a new schedule of spacecraft priorities following the successful launch and validation of NOAA-19. These sets of priorities are used by OSO in handling simultaneous POES contacts and have been designed to maximize POES and Jason-2 users' data requirements while providing safe monitoring and sustainability of NOAA's POES constellation.
On January 12, 2010 at 0000 UTC, the following priorities will be assigned to NOAA's Operational POES constellation: Spacecraft Status Number of Contacts per Day (All CDAs) NOAA-19 PRIMARY P.M. 14 - as many as possible JASON-2 PRIMARY/OSTM 12 - as many as possible NOAA-15 BACKUP A.M. 8 NOAA-17 BACKUP A.M. 8 NOAA-18 BACKUP P.M. 8NOAA-16 SECONDARY P.M. 8
EUMETSAT Operated Metop-A PRIMARY A.M. (Provided by EUMETSAT) To help manage and maintain each satellite and meet objectives, mission priorities have been defined for scheduling and for post-pass transfers: Spacecraft Scheduling Priorities: NOAA-19 Metop-A Jason-2 NOAA-15 NOAA-17 NOAA-18 NOAA-16 Post-Pass Data Transfer Priorities: NOAA-19 GAC NOAA-19 LAC NOAA-19 HRPT NOAA-19 STIP NOAA-15 GAC NOAA-15 LAC NOAA-15 HRPT NOAA-15 STIP NOAA-17 GAC NOAA-17 LAC NOAA-17 HRPT NOAA-17 STIP NOAA-18 GAC NOAA-18 LAC NOAA-18 HRPT NOAA-18 STIP NOAA-16 GAC NOAA-16 LAC NOAA-16 HRPT NOAA-16 STIP As part of the IJPS era, NOAA's agreement with EUMETSAT requires that we provide satellite data from the afternoon orbits while EUMETSAT provides the data from the morning orbits. To that end, NOAA-19 is used to meet that objective. More information on the POES Constellation can be found at: http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/ --------------------------- Contact Information: Brian Hughes Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8051 x106 Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages. See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov for full GOES scanning schedules.
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