Subject: Product Outage/Anomaly:Update: NOAA-18 SBUV Anomaly, This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050104000805060301010307 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *NOAA-18 SBUV Anomaly *Date/Time(UTC) Message Issued:* December 13, 2012, 1510 UTC *Product(s) Involved/Affected:* All data and products from NOAA-18 SBUV *Date/Time(UTC) of Initial Impact:*December 12, 2011, 08:05 UTC *Date/Time(UTC) of Expected End: *Unknown *Length of Outage: *Until Further Notice *Details/Specifics of Change:* At approximately 08:05 UTC, December 12, 2012, NOAA-18 SBUV Chopper Motor stalled resulting in a sudden increase in current and temperature. This anomaly occurred in May 2008, rendering the SBUV instrument inoperable. Engineering is working on the problem but does not expect any improvements in the near term. ESPC will continue to provide updates as they are provided. *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 * Web Site(s) for applicable information:* N/A --------------050104000805060301010307 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic: NOAA-18 SBUV Anomaly

Date/Time(UTC) Message Issued:  December 13, 2012, 1510  UTC

Product(s) Involved/Affected:  All data and products from NOAA-18 SBUV

Date/Time(UTC) of Initial Impact: December 12, 2011, 08:05 UTC

Date/Time(UTC) of Expected End: Unknown

Length of Outage: Until Further Notice

Details/Specifics of Change:

At approximately 08:05 UTC, December 12, 2012, NOAA-18 SBUV Chopper Motor stalled resulting in a sudden increase in current and temperature.  

This anomaly occurred in May 2008, rendering the SBUV instrument inoperable.  Engineering is working on the problem but does not expect any improvements in the near term.  ESPC will continue to provide updates as they are provided. 


Contact Information for Further Information:
ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A



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