Topic:  SARSAT Hawaii Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Ground Station Antenna Outage


Date/Time Issued:  August 04, 2023 1232Z


Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SARSAT alert data


Date/Time of Initial Impact:   August 04, 2023 0906Z


Date/Time of Expected End:  TBD


Length of Outage:  TBD


Details/Specifics of Change:  Hawaii MEO antenna data stopped flowing to the USMCC. However, the HI-MEOLUT is still making solutions with FL-MEO networked data. The maintenance vendor is investigating this issue.


Impact: Medium - Western Pacifica Search and Rescue region’s MEOSAR distress detection/reporting is delayed. GEOSAR are nominal.   


Web Site(s) for Applicable Information: N/A

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