Subject: SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Update #1 - Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_DxAdNW0ZegmGIHPOvcKG1Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Update #1: *Final - SARSAT Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Ground Stations: All SARSAT gound stations upgrades are complete as of 1730Z on September 23, 2015. Process took approximately 2 weeks. *Topic:* SARSAT Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Ground Stations Software Upgrades *Date/Time Issued:* September 8, 2015 1800Z *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_DxAdNW0ZegmGIHPOvcKG1Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Update #1: Final - SARSAT Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) Ground Stations: All SARSAT gound stations upgrades are complete as of 1730Z on September 23, 2015. Process took approximately 2 weeks.

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

Date/Time Issued: September 8, 2015 1800Z

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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