Topic:NOAA-16 Decommissioned

Date/Time Issued: June 10, 2014 0010 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All NOAA-16 Data Products

Microwave McIDAS Products - AMSU
AVHRR Cloud Drift Polar Winds
The Blended Hydrometeorological Products - Blended TPW,
Microwave AWIPS Products - Blended TPW
Microwave McIDAS Products - Blended TPW
CLAVR-X Processing (AIX)
Global Vegetation Index
Hazard Mapping System - Data Pre-processing and Graphical User Interface
AFEP/Ingestor - POES
POES AMSU-A L1b
POES AMSU-B L1b
POES GAC 1b
POES HRPT 1b
POES LAC 1b
POES DCS 1b
POES HIRS/3 L1b
POES SBUV 1b
POES SEM 1b
POES SARSAT 1b
POES AMSU-A L1b*
POES AMSU-B L1b*
POES GAC 1b*
POES HRPT 1b*
POES LAC 1b*
POES HIRS/3 L1b*
Microwave Precipitation and Surface Products System
GOES-Based Multi-Platform Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind
N-AWIPS Ingest
OSDPD Web Pages
OSPO Web Pages
Ozone (OOPS/ROPES)
Polar AIRS
Earth Radiation Budget
SBUV Version 8
Shared Processing Program Gateway
SPSD Web Pages

Date/Time of Initial Outage: June 6, 2014 04:32 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End : June 09, 2014 14:23 UTC

Length of Event: 3 days approx. 10 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:

Launched in September 2000 NOAA-16 completed 70655 orbits and over thirteen years of service to the weather and forecasting communities. NOAA-16 was decommissioned on June 9, 2014 at 14:23 UTC due to major spacecraft anomaly. The last fully successful contact of NOAA-16 was on 6 June at 00:55UTC (5 June at 8:55 p.m. EDT) at the Wallops Command and Data Acquisition (WCDA) station on REV 70655. The last reported HRPT was at 04:32 UTC.

After extensive engineering analysis and recovery efforts it was determined that recovery of the mission was not possible and the satellite was decommissioned. As part of confirming successful decommissioning, users and sites should monitor where possible any of the S-Band frequencies (1698 MHz, 1702.5 MHz, 2247.5 MHz) and VHF frequencies (137.35 and 137.77 MHz) for the next 30 days. Should a NOAA-16 signal be detected contact the ESPC Helpdesk. Any unexplained and unexpected RF interference with NOAA-15, 18 or 19 should also be reported to the ESPC Helpdesk.

The last GAC data from NOAA-16 was received during Wallops pass rev 70655 at 00:55 UTC, 6 June 2014 (14/157).

The last HRPT data from NOAA-16 was received by Monterrey at 4:32 UTC, 6 June 2014 (14/157).

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880
or Satellite Analysis Branch Shift Supervisor at SABSupervisor@noaa.gov and 301-683-1500

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

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