Subject: SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station Offline, This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_kLqv9kpcdDct7QoW/C1k2Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:* SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline *Date/Time Issued: * May 01, 2018 0640Z *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* SARSAT alert data *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* May 01, 2018 0444Z *Date/Time of Expected End: * May 01, 2018 0558Z *Length of Outage:* 1 hour and 14 minutes *Details/Specifics of Change: *Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data at 0444Z. The LUT Vendor found that Maryland 1 accepted a cold reboot command, but did not process due to a communication issue. Maryland 1 was manually restarted and returned to Normal Operation at 0558Z. All missing alert data was recovered. *Impact: *Minor-There is no impact on distress alert detection/reporting timeliness 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 This message was sent to ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov . You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880 . Please note: it make take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --Boundary_(ID_kLqv9kpcdDct7QoW/C1k2Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

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

Date/Time Issued:  May 01, 2018 0640Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  May 01, 2018 0444Z

Date/Time of Expected End:  May 01, 2018 0558Z

Length of Outage:  1 hour and 14 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change:  Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data at 0444Z.  The LUT Vendor found that Maryland 1 accepted a cold reboot command, but did not process due to a communication issue.  Maryland 1 was manually restarted and returned to Normal Operation at 0558Z.  All missing alert data was recovered.

Impact:  Minor-There is no impact on distress alert detection/reporting timeliness 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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