Product(s) or Data Impacted: All Wallops CDAS GOES, POES and other operational services will be affected. For complete data impact listing, please see Details.
Date/Time of Initial Impact:
May 11, 2016 1200 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: May 11, 2016 2359 UTC
Length of Outage: 8 to 12 hours
Details/Specifics of Change:
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, the NOAA Wallops Command and Data
Acquisition Station (WCDAS) is planning a partial site power
outage. The outage is required to troubleshoot and perform
repairs
on the Station's critical power system. All WCDAS operational
systems are powered by this system. Station “Utility” power,
which
provides for noncritical systems such as facility lighting,
cooling, etc., will not be affected. The Technical power outage
can be expected to last as long as 12 hours although there is a
possibility the work will be completed within a shorter time
period.
This work will NOT be done on a Critical
Weather Day, or if there are other significant operational issues
warranting postponement. This planned outage will be postponed if
a Critical Weather Day is declared on May 11, 2016. The backup
date is June 8, 2016.
The following services will be impacted by this outage:
This outage will impact all users of Meteosat-10 data broadcast
through the U.S. NOAA DOMSAT service. Wallops U.S. Meteosat
Second Generation (MSG) DOMSAT (DOMestic communications
SATellite)
Relay support will be unavailable for the duration of the outage.
The Wallops SES World Skies DOMSAT (DOMestic communications
SATellite) ground system is serviced by the Station Utility
power.
This outage will impact all data users of Local Readout Ground
Systems (LRGS). Wallops DCS Local Readout Ground Systems (LRGS)
support will be unavailable for the duration of the outage.
Wallops Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) support will be
unavailable for the duration of the outage. Real Time Solar Wind
(RTSW) will be used by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
(SWPC).
This outage will impact all users of Advanced Composition
Explorer
(ACE). Wallops Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) support
will be
unavailable for the duration of the outage.
The Wallops OSPO Backup Facility (OBF) ESPC equipment to be
powered down by the NSOF ESPC team.
SARSAT will have limited backup capabilities during the
outage; no
impact no normal operations is expected. The Wallops OSPO Backup
Facility (OBF) SARSAT equipment to be powered down by the NSOF
SARSAT team.
Wallops Argos calibration signal support will be unavailable for
the duration of the outage.
The following will transition to backup facilities for the
duration of the work and should not be impacted:
No loss in ability to provide all GOES-13 (GOES-East) data,
products and services to all users is expected. GOES-13
(GOES-East) Telemetry & Command, Sensor Data, Processed Data
Relay, and Low Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) services will
be transitioned to the Wallops BackUp (WBU).
No loss in ability to provide all GOES-15 (GOES-West) data,
products and services to all users is expected. GOES-15
(GOES-West) Telemetry & Command, Sensor Data, Processed Data
Relay, and Low Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) services will
be transitioned to the FCDAS (Fairbanks Command and Data
Acquisition Station) at Fairbanks, AK.
Please note: OSPO may lose the ability to provide Emergency
Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) services. NOAA
technicians are researching a solution to mitigate a potential
EMWIN outage.
No loss in ability to provide all POES data, products and
services
to all users is expected. POES operations will be transferred as
required (to FCDAS or Svalbard). Wallops POES support will be
unavailable for the duration of the outage.
GOES-14 Telemetry support will be assumed by the Satellite
Operations Control Center (SOCC) at Suitland, MD.
No loss in ability to provide GOES Data Collection System
(DCS) to
all users is expected. The Wallops GOES DCS National Weather
Service Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG) and DOMSAT (DOMestic
communications SATellite) services support will transition to the
NSOF Backup DCS. NSOF DCS will be become Prime for the
duration of
the outage. Wallops GOES Data Collection System (DCS) Pilot
transmitters for GOES-13 (GOES-East) & GOES-15 (GOES-West)
will transition to Utility power.
At the close of this outage window we expect all services to
resume as normal. If you find that any of your services
are still
affected after the close of the outage window please, contact
information listed below.
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