Topic:
NOAA-18 MHS in Spin State for a Short Period
Date/Time Issued:
March 12, 2010 1803 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted:
NOAA-18 MHS
Date/Time of Initial Impact:
March 12, 2010 1425 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End:
March 12, 2010 1630 UTC
Length of Event:
2 Hours
Impacts on Users and Significance:
Possible major impact
Details/Specifics of Change:
At 14:25:04Z (UTC) of March 12, 2010, the NOAA-18 MHS entered its spin state. The spacecraft was in the middle of its night time (from 14:13-14:46 UTC) over the Pacific Ocean at 16N, 172E. A recovery procedure from the MHS spin state was successfully executed at 16:30:11Z during the immediately following call-up pass 24782 at Fairbanks.
The MHS instrument is now operating in normal Scan Mode.
Contact Person(s) Name/Email/Phone Number for Questions:
Dejiang Han Dejiang.Han@noaa.gov 301-817-4119 Level 1B operations support
Web site(s) that contain other relevant information (where applicable):
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/PPP/PPP.html - History of level 1B notices
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html - All user notices
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/index.htm - SOCC polar satellite status
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