Subject: SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 2 GEO Ground Station Offline, This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_UebCnLKY0Sbo/hIBhNNy1A) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:* SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 2 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline ** *Date/Time Issued: * April 03, 2018 0555Z ** *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* SARSAT alert data ** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* April 03, 2018 0325Z ** *Date/Time of Expected End: * April 03, 2018 0411Z ** *Length of Outage:* 46 minutes ** *Details/Specifics of Change: *Maryland 2 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 alert data. The maintenance vendor determined that the Signal Processor (SP) had become hung and restarted the SP software. Maryland 2 returned to Normal Operation and all missing alert data came in late. ** *Impact: *Minor - Distress alert detection/reporting timeliness affected. ** *Contact Information for Further Information: *USMCC Operations usmcc@noaa.gov at 301-817-4576 ** *Web Site(s) for applicable information:* N/A --Boundary_(ID_UebCnLKY0Sbo/hIBhNNy1A) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Topic:  SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 2 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline

Date/Time Issued:  April 03, 2018 0555Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 03, 2018 0325Z

Date/Time of Expected End:  April 03, 2018 0411Z

Length of Outage:  46 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change:  Maryland 2 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 alert data.  The maintenance vendor determined that the Signal Processor (SP) had become hung and restarted the SP software.  Maryland 2 returned to Normal Operation and all missing alert data came in late.

Impact:  Minor - Distress alert detection/reporting timeliness affected.

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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