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WEATHER SATELLITES
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POLAR APT, DIGITAL and GEOSTATIONARY WEEKLY STATUS.
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Author : Douglas S Deans. dsdeans@tiscali.co.uk
Section 4 has updates.
SECTION 1: POLAR APT/LRPT REPORT -- 7th September 2009
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Satellite Frequency (MHz) Status Image Quality
NOAA 15 137.500 (APT) on good
NOAA 17 137.620 (APT) on good
NOAA 18 137.9125 (APT) on good
NOAA 19 137.100 (APT) on good
Metop-A 137.100 (LRPT) off see Note 3
CHANGES SINCE LAST REPORT.
None.
THIS WEEK'S POSSIBLE EVENTS.
None expected.
NOTES.
1. Three of the older NOAA weather satellites which have been
decommissioned and are tumbling freely are known to sporadically put
out
a carrier on 137.500 MHz. The satellites are TIROS-N, NOAA 6 and NOAA
9
When the relevant footprints overlap this will cause interference to
NOAA 15 when active on this frequency.
Latest report below.
01/05/09 - Report of consistent interference on NOAA 15 signal when
NOAA 9 footprint overlaps. My thanks to Steven Ross for this report.
2. NOAA 16's APT transmission system failed a few months after launch.
3. Metop-A's A-side LRPT transmitter has failed. Currently the redundant
B-side transmitter is off until further notice (No further service
expected due to interference with HIRS instrument).
4. NOAA 14 was decommissioned on 23rd May 2007.
5. NOAA 12 was decommissioned on 10th August 2007.
7. Elements are available from :-
http://www.space-track.org and
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/
LAUNCHES.
None due.
Possibility of Okean 5 launch 2009/2010
SECTION 2: POLAR HRPT/AHRPT REPORT -- 7th September 2009
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CHANGES SINCE LAST REPORT.
None.
THIS WEEK'S POSSIBLE EVENTS.
None expected.
Satellite Frequency Antenna Mode Image Quality
(MHz)
NOAA 15 1702.5 Omni HRPT Weak
NOAA 16 1702.5 LHCP HRPT Mixed ( note 3)
NOAA 17 1698.0 RHCP HRPT Good
NOAA 18 1702.5 LHCP HRPT Good
NOAA 19 1698.0 RHCP HRPT Good
Feng Yun 1D 1700.4 RHCP CHRPT Good
Feng Yun 3A see note 5
Metop-A 1701.3 RHCP AHRPT Good (note 4)
NOTES.
1. NOAA 14 was decommissioned on 23rd June 2007.
2. NOAA 12 was decommissioned on 10th August 2007.
3. On Friday 19th September 2003 NOAA 16 developed AVHRR synch. problems
similar to those on NOAA 14 (and previously NOAA 15).
Since then reports have been mixed. Some periods of good data, some
poor.
UPDATE: Scan motor performance has recently improved.
4. On 25 May 2009, Eumetsat extended the coverage of the Advanced High
Resolution Picture Transmission (AHRPT) system on Eumetsat's Metop-A
polar-orbiting satellite. The improved service provides additional
coverage over the Gulf of Mexico and Indian Ocean regions.
For more information, please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/Features/710601
5. Feng Yun 3A was declared operational on 12th January 2009. My thanks
to
Johnny Lin for drawing this to my attention.
I am also grateful to Dave Wright of Dartcom for confirming that
unfortunately (as usual) the Chinese have not strictly complied with
the
CGMS AHRPT Global Standard so reception using a standard Metop AHRPT
receiver is not possible.
LAUNCHES.
Meteor M N1 launch tentatively set for 15th September 2009.
SECTION 3: CONTINENTAL GEOSTATIONARY WORLD
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WEATHER SATELLITE REPORT -- 7th September 2009
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CHANGES SINCE LAST REPORT.
None.
THIS WEEK'S POSSIBLE EVENTS.
None expected.
Europe & Africa
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Satellite : Meteosat 8 (9.5°E)
Data : HRIT (digital) and LRIT (digital)
Operational : Yes, RSS and Standby for Meteosat 9.
Satellite : Meteosat 9 (0°) (note 7).
Data : HRIT (digital) and LRIT (digital)
Operational : Yes.
North America
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East.
Satellite : GOES 12 (75.0° W)
Data : GVAR (digital) - 1685.7 MHz
LRIT (digital) -1691 MHz
Operational : Yes
West.
Satellite : GOES 11 (135°W)
Data : GVAR (digital) - 1685.7 MHz
LRIT (digital) - 1691 MHz
Operational : Yes
South America
----------------
Satellite : GOES 10 (60°W)
GVAR (digital) - 1685.7 MHz
LRIT - No service.
Asia (Russian Operated Satellite)
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Satellite : GOMS N2 / ELECTRO-L
sometimes called ELEKTRO -L/N1
Data : HRIT/LRIT.
Operational : No. launch 4th Quarter 2009
Asia (European Operated Satellites)
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Satellite : Meteosat 7 (57.5°E)
HRI (digital) - 1691 MHz
Wefax (analogue) occasionally for ranging purposes
only.
Operational : Yes.
Satellite : Meteosat 6 (67.5°E) (Note 2).
Asia (Indian Operated Satellite)
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Satellite : Metsat
Data : None available.
Operational : Yes.
Satellite : Insat 3A (Note 3.)
Data : VHRR (digital) 2599 MHz
Operational : Yes.
Asia & Oceania (Japanese Operated Satellites)
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Satellite : MTSAT-1R (140° E) (note 5.)
Data : HRIT (digital) and LRIT(digital) on 1691 MHz.
(Note 6.)
Operational : Yes.
Asia & Oceania (Chinese Operated Satellites)
----------------------------------------------------
Satellite : Feng Yun 2C (105°E)
Data : SVISSR (digital) and LRIT (digital)
Operational : Yes.
Satellite : Feng Yun 2D (86.5°E).
Data : SVISSR (digital) and LRIT (digital)
Operational : Yes. Parallel operation with 2C.
(My thanks to Johnny Lin for the update).
Satellite: Feng Yun 2E (123.3° E)
Data : SVISSR (digital) and LRIT (digital)
Operational : No. Stand by.
NOTES.
1. Meteosat 7 stopped its 0° service at 09.00 UTC on 14th June 2006.
2. Meteosat-6 arrived on station at 67.5 degrees East, on the 27 April
2007.
After a short testing campaign, Meteosat-6 is now supporting the DCP
mission over the Indian Ocean during eclipse periods.
3. Insat 3A is a combined data and meteorological satellite.
4. For those interested in EMWIN data, the following sats/frequencies
apply.
GOES 7 (175 W) 1690.725 MHz.
GOES 11 (135 W) 1690.725 MHz
GOES 12 (74.5 W) 1690.725 MHz
For further info. there are many sources but the following is
particularly informative:-
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/user-intro.htm
5. This satellite is also known as HIMAWARI 6.
6. HiRID and WEFAX was discontinued on 12th March 2008. It was replaced
with HRIT/LRIT (after many months of dual dissemination).
7. Only LRIT (1691.0 MHz) is provided in direct readout.
Full HRIT and LRIT service from Eumetcast.
SECTION 4: EUMETCAST REPORT -- 7th September 2009
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Service Status Eurobird 9A Satellite (9° E)
EARS On Transponder TP63: 11976.82 MHz
Meteosat 8 (RSS) On Transponder TP63: 11976.82 MHz
Meteosat 9 On Transponder TP63: 11976.82 MHz
DWDSAT On Transponder TP63: 11976.82 MHz
EPS(Metop-A) On Transponder TP63: 11976.82 MHz
Jason On Transponder TP63: 11976.82 MHz
CHANGES SINCE LAST REPORT.
General Note added.
Meteosat 9 Note added.
Meteosat 8 Note added.
Metop and NOAA Global Data Service Note updated.
Metop and NOAA Regional Data Service Note added.
Future Events Note updated.
THIS WEEK AND FUTURE POSSIBLE EVENTS.
GENERAL NOTE.
08 September 2009 09:00 UTC.
Modifications to the DCP filenames on EUMETCast. The change impacts the
disseminating spacecraft ID field.
For more information see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/OperationalNews/714248?l=en
METEOSAT 9.
07 September 2009.
Introduction of BUFR Edition 4.
EUMETSAT plans to implement BUFR edition 4 for the Meteosat Second
Generation Meteorological Products and the Metop/NOAA Global Data Service.
For more information please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/OperationalNews/714327?l=en
08 September 2009 08:00-10:00 UTC.
Maintenance of the MSG Ground Segment.
Risk of interruptions on the following services: Met-9 SEVIRI data, Met-9
Meteorological Products, LRIT Direct Dissemination, FSD products, MDD,
DCPs
and GTS Bulletins.
METEOSAT 8 (RSS).
07 September 2009.
Introduction of BUFR Edition 4.
EUMETSAT plans to implement BUFR edition 4 for the Meteosat Second
Generation Meteorological Products and the Metop/NOAA Global Data Service.
For more information please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/OperationalNews/714327?l=en
08 September 2009 08:00-10:00 UTC
Maintenance of the MSG Ground Segment
Risk of interruptions on the following services: Met-8 SEVIRI data and
Met-8
Meteorological Products.
IODC.
14 August 2009 - 03 October 2009.
Meteosat-7 eclipse season.
Slots 38 to 43 may not be available.
METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE.
07 September 2009.
Introduction of BUFR Edition 4.
EUMETSAT plans to implement BUFR edition 4 for the Meteosat Second
Generation Meteorological Products and the Metop/NOAA Global Data Service.
For more information please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/OperationalNews/714327?l=en
07 September 2009 - 12 September 2009.
GOME-2 throughput performance test.
A second 5-day throughput performance test will be carried out on the
GOME-2
instrument on Metop-A. As a consequence there will be an outage in data
dissemination of the Level 1 products from EUMETSAT and Level 2 products
from the O3M-SAF from 7-12 September 2009.
For more information see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Media/OperationalNews/714239?l=en
09 September 2009.
Update of the ASCAT L1b processing chain architecture.
In order to implement dynamic generation and usage of Power-to-sigma0
normalisation factors (auxiliary file: ASCA_NTB_xx_M02).
No significant impact on product quality.
METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE.
08 September 2009.
KNMI plans to start the dissemination of EARS-ASCAT L2 wind products to
the
GTS.
09 September 2009.
Update of the ASCAT L1b processing chain architecture.
In order to implement dynamic generation and usage of Power-to-sigma0
normalisation factors (auxiliary file: ASCA_NTB_xx_M02).
No significant impact on product quality.
FSD.
13 August 2009 - 16 October 2009.
GOES11_135W Eclipse.
08:00 and 09:00 UTC files may not be available.
14 August 2009 - 15 October 2009.
GOES12_75W Eclipse.
04:00, 05:00 and 06:00 UTC files may not be available.
23 August 2009 - 17 October 2009.
MTSAT-1R_140E Eclipse.
14:00 and 15:00 UTC files may not be available.
FUTURE EVENTS.
METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE.
15 September 2009.
Addition of Saint-Denis (La Reunion) station (std) in EARS-ATOVS. Example
file names: amsub_20090901_0627_noaa17_37358_std.l1a.bz2 and
hirs_20090901_0925_noaa19_02918_std.l1c_bufr.
The Saint-Denis station is located at 55.5025 E, 20.90528 S.
17 September 2009 09:17-15:50 UTC.
Metop-A out-of-plane Manoeuvre.
There will be data outages during the above time period. Products affected
are:
AMSU, ASCAT, GOME2, GRAS, HIRS, IASI, MHS and SEM
The following EPS GDS products are available on Eumetcast.
EPS-2 PID 510 Metop AMSA operational
EPS-3 PID 510 Metop ASCAT operational
EPS-4 PID 510 Metop ATOVS operational
EPS-5 PID 510 Metop GOME operational
EPS-6 PID 510 Metop GRAS operational
EPS-7 PID 510 Metop HIRS operational
EPS-8 PID 510 Metop MHS operational
EPS-10 PID 510 Metop AVHRR operational
EPS-11 PID 510 Metop IASI operational
EPS-13 PID 510 NOAA AMSA operational
EPS-14 PID 510 NOAA ATOVS operational
(EPS-14 Manufacturers only at present).
EPS-15 PID 510 NOAA GAC operational
EPS-16 PID 510 NOAA HIRS operational
EPS-17 PID 510 NOAA MHS operational
EPS-18 PID 510 EPS Service News operational
EPS-19 PID 510 Test service operational
(EPS-19 may sometimes be limited to Manufacturers)
NOTES.
1. Reports for all sections should be sent to :-
Douglas Deans dsdeans@tiscali.co.uk
2. For further information on the Eumetcast service see :-
David Taylor's web site
http://www.satsignal.eu => Weather Satellites, Using EUMETCast
or Satellite Tools, MSG
Data
Manager.
or the Eumetsat web site
www.eumetsat.int
GENERAL
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For further weather satellite related information join GEO, Group for
Earth
Observation, and receive the informative quarterly magazine. See :-
http://www.geo-web.org.uk/
To download element sets for all satellites visit the following sites :
http://www.space-track.org and
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/
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