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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