Update
#1: Final Update - Maryland
Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station back to normal operations at
0512Z. MDL FP was manually restarted. Data is now being sent to
the USMCC.
Topic:SARSAT
Outage/Anomaly:
Maryland1Geostationary
(GEO) Ground Station Offline
Date/Time
Issued:March
31 2018 0543Z
Product(s)
or Data Impacted:
SARSAT alert data
Date/Time
of Initial Impact:
March 31 2018 0405Z
Date/Time
of Expected End: March
31, 2018 0512Z
Length
of Outage:
1 hour 7 minutes
Details/Specifics
of Change:Maryland1GEO
Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert
data on March 31, 2018 at 0405Z.
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
Operationsusmcc@noaa.govat3
Web
Site(s) for applicable information: N/A
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