Date/Time Issued: September 11, 2023 1652Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:   Hawaii and Florida Medium Earth Orbit Ground Stations

Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 18, 2023 1020Z

Date/Time of Expected End: TBD

Length of Outage: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:  The Florida and Hawaii MEOLUTs are not ingesting the optimized USMCC antenna tracking schedule. They have defaulted to their own internal schedules. The USMCC is working with the maintenance vendor to resolve the issue. MEO data is still being received from international partners.  

Impact:  Minor -  Distress alert location reporting may be delayed and location accuracy may be reduced. GEOSAR and LEOSAR are operating nominally.

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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