Update#1: After a review of the Hawaii 1 LEO ground station, the LUT vendor expressed a communication issue between the Location Processor(LP) and the router. Both LP and the Front Processor (FP) were manually rebooted, and operations returned to normal.

Topic: SARSAT Hawaii 1 Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Station Offline

Date/Time Issued: August 13, 2018 2122Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 13, 2018 1730Z

Date/Time of Expected End: August 13, 2018 2039Z

Length of Outage: 3 Hours and 9 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change: Hawaii 1 LEO Ground Station in Wahiawa, HI is not receiving alert data. The maintenance vendor is investigating this issue.

Impact: Minor-Dual satellite tracking capability lost. Distress alert detection/reporting may be delayed.

Contact Information for Further Information: USMCC Operations usmcc@noaa.gov at 301-817-4576

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