Update #1: Final Update - Vendor warm restarted the SP
software. The USMCC started receiving data as of 0330Z
Topic: SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 1 Geostationary (GEO)
Ground Station Offline
Date/Time Issued: April 1, 2018 0418Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: SARSAT alert data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 1, 2018 0218Z (Correction
from April 1, 2018 2018Z)
Date/Time of Expected End: April 1, 2018 0330Z
Length of Outage: 1 hour 12 minutes
Details/Specifics of Change: Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station
in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data on April 1, 2018
2018Z
Impact: Minor-There is no impact on distress alert
detection/reporting timeliness due to the redundancy of the SARSAT
GEOLUT system.
Contact Information for Further Information: USMCC
Operations usmcc@noaa.gov at 301-817-4576
Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A
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