Subject: Product Outage/Anomaly: Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station Offline, This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_/okom67A9Wjrs8gUxKbrjw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:* SARSAT Outage/Anomaly: Maryland1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline *Date/Time Issued: * February 09, 2018 0410Z *Product(s) or Data Impacted:* SARSAT alert data *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* February 09, 2018 0225Z *Date/Time of Expected End: * February 09, 2018 0314Z *Length of Outage:* 49 minutes *Details/Specifics of Change: *Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data on February 09, 2018 at 0225Z. The maintenance vendor advised to send a cold reboot command to the LUT and Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station returned to Normal Operations at 0314Z. *Impact: *Minor-Distress alert detection/reporting timeliness affected. *Contact Information for Further Information: *USMCC Operations usmcc@noaa.gov at 301-817-4576 *Web Site(s) for applicable information:* N/A --Boundary_(ID_/okom67A9Wjrs8gUxKbrjw) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Topic:  SARSAT Outage/AnomalyMaryland 1 Geostationary (GEO) Ground Station Offline

Date/Time Issued:  February 09, 2018 0410Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  February 09, 2018 0225Z

Date/Time of Expected End:  February 09, 2018 0314Z

Length of Outage:  49 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change:  Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data on February 09, 2018 at 0225Z.  The maintenance vendor advised to send a cold reboot command to the LUT and Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station returned to Normal Operations at 0314Z.

Impact:  Minor-Distress alert detection/reporting timeliness affected.

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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