Topic:SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland
1
Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline
Date/Time Issued: February 04, 2018 0245Z
Product(s) or Data
Impacted:
SARSAT alert data
Date/Time of Initial
Impact:
February 04, 2018 0206Z
Date/Time of Expected
End:
TBD
Length of Outage: TBD
Details/Specifics of
Change:Maryland 1
GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD has stopped sending 406 MHz
alert
data. The maintenance vendor has been contacted to
investigate the
problem.
Impact: Minor - Distress alert
detection/reporting
timeliness affected.
Contact Information for
Further
Information: USMCC
Operations usmcc@noaa.gov
at 301-817-4576
Web Site(s) for applicable
information:
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