Subject: SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 1 Geostationary (GEO) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_I4SMglZzRrr1Ubv3U6tAQw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *//**//**Update #1 - Final Update: *Maryland 1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station is Online and back to normal operations. *Topic:* SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline *Date/Time Issued: * March 29,2018 0852Z *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* SARSAT alert data *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* March 29,2018 0736Z *Date/Time of Expected End: * March 29,2018 0829Z *Length of Outage:* 53 minutes *Details/Specifics of Change: *Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data on March 18, 2018 0736Z . The maintenance vendor has resolved this issue by rebooting the FP server and Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station returned to Normal Operations at 0829Z. *Impact: *Minor-Distress alert detection/reporting timeliness affected due to the redundancy of the SARSAT GEOLUT system.. *Contact Information for Further Information: *USMCC Operations usmcc@noaa.gov at 301-817-4576 *Web Site(s) for applicable information:* N/A --Boundary_(ID_I4SMglZzRrr1Ubv3U6tAQw) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Update #1 - Final Update: Maryland 1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station is Online and back to normal operations.

Topic:  SARSAT Outage/AnomalyMaryland 1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline

Date/Time Issued:  March 29,2018 0852Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  March 29,2018 0736Z

Date/Time of Expected End:   March 29,2018 0829Z

Length of Outage:  53 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change:  Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data on March 18, 2018 0736Z .  The maintenance vendor has resolved this issue by rebooting the FP server and Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station returned to Normal Operations at 0829Z.

Impact:  Minor-Distress alert detection/reporting timeliness affected due to the redundancy of the SARSAT GEOLUT system..

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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