Subject: SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_8RSoEyVjRino2w7wUSlfUg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:* SARSAT Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Ground Stations Software Upgrades *Date/Time Issued:* September 8, 2015 1905Z *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* SARSAT alert data *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* September 8, 2015 1845Z *Date/Time of Expected End:* September 30, 2015 1845Z *Length of Outage: *Approximately 3 weeks *Details/Specifics of Change: *All SARSAT ground stations will be upgraded over the next 3 weeks. During this period the remaining 12 (2 have already been completed) SARSAT ground stations will be upgraded one at a time. Each upgrade will take approximately 12-24 hours to complete. *Impact:* The impact resulting from these planned outages will be minimized by the redundancy in the SARSAT 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_8RSoEyVjRino2w7wUSlfUg) Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Topic: SARSAT Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Ground Stations Software Upgrades

Date/Time Issued: September 8, 2015 1905Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: September 8, 2015 1845Z

Date/Time of Expected End: September 30, 2015 1845Z

Length of Outage: Approximately 3 weeks

Details/Specifics of Change: All SARSAT ground stations will be upgraded over the next 3 weeks.  During this period the remaining 12 (2 have already been completed) SARSAT ground stations will be upgraded one at a time. Each upgrade will take approximately 12-24 hours to complete. 

 Impact: The impact resulting from these planned outages will be minimized by the redundancy in the SARSAT 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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