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Topic: GOES Fall 2010 Solar RFI Message Issued: September 15, 2010 1745 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-11 through GOES-15Products Impacted: GOES-11 through GOES-15 Imager and Sounder Data plus Ancillary Services
Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 3, 2010 ----------------------------------------- Details: GOES Users:I have received the following information from SOCC concerning the potential for outages of the GOES data stream including GVAR (Imager and Sounder), EMWIN, SAR, LRIT, DCS, etc.
The Wallops and Fairbanks CDA and SOCC receiving antennas may experience periods of Solar RFI as predicted below. Solar RFI can cause loss of telemetry lock and command capability, as well as degradation or loss in the GVAR data:
SOLAR RFI PREDICTED TIMES FOR SPRING 2010 S/C DATE TIME STATION OPERATIONAL IMPACTGOES-11 4 OCT-11 OCT 2109-2121Z WALLOPS SD, GVAR, T&C, EMWIN, LRIT, WEFAX, DCS, SAR, MDL
11 OCT-18 OCT 2139-2151Z FAIRBANKS
GOES-12 3 OCT-9 OCT 1531-1543Z WALLOPS SD, GVAR, T&C, EMWIN, LRIT,
WEFAX, SAR, MDL
GOES-13 5 OCT-11 OCT 1643-1655Z WALLOPS SD, GVAR, T&C, EMWIN, LRIT, WEFAX,DCS, DCPR, SAR, MDL
GOES-14 4 OCT-10 OCT 1856-1908Z WALLOPS T&C, EMWIN, MDLGOES-15 6 OCT-12 OCT 1746-1758Z WALLOPS SD, GVAR, T&C, EMWIN, LRIT, WEFAX,DCS, DCPR, SAR, MDL
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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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