POES PROGRAM STATUS

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POES PROGRAM STATUS Michel Mignogno NOAA Polar
Satellite Program Manager Satellite Direct
Readout Conference for the Americas December
9-13, 2002 Miami, Florida
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POES MISSION

• TO PROVIDE UNINTERRUPTED FLOW OF GLOBAL
  ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF
  OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
• Global Soundings
• Global Imagery
• Global and Regional Surface Hydrological Obs
• Direct Readout, Data Collection, Search and
  Rescue
• Space Environment and Ozone Observations
• TO ESTABLISH LONG-TERM CONTINUOUS DATA SETS FOR
• Climate monitoring and change predictions
• This requires two satellites for continuous
  coverage placed in orbits selected to optimize
  support for both weather services and climate
  requirements.

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NOAA Polar-orbiting Satellite System - 2002
Fairbanks, AK
Polar Orbits
Suitland, MD and Camp Springs, MD
Wallops Is, VA
200 P.M.
Sun-Synchronous Incl. 98.74 Period 101
min. Apogee 530/518 miles Scan width 2700
km Circle Earth 14 times per day
1000 A.M.
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PROGRAM CONSTITUENCY

• NWS - NCEP and Field Offices (especially in
  Alaska)
• OAR, NMFS, NOS
• DOD All Branches
• NASA
• DOT U.S. Coast Guard, FAA
• USDA Forest Service
• DOI (Interior) U.S. Geological Survey, BLM
• Universities
• World Met. Organization - Foreign Weather
  Services
• Hundreds of registered HRPT (High Resolution
  Picture Transmission) users world-wide
• Thousands of APT (Automatic Picture Transmission)
  users world-wide
• European Modeling Centers

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NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• NASA
• Spacecraft and Instrument Procurement
• Launch Services
• Anomaly resolution support
• United Kingdom - UK Met Office
• Microwave Humidity Sounder (AMSU-B)
• Canada - DND
• Search and Rescue - (SARR)
• France - CNES
• Search and Rescue - (SARP)
• Service ARGOS - (DCS A-DCS)
• EUMETSAT
• IJPS/Metop - (IASI, MHS, ASCAT, GOME, GRAS)

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POES SATELLITE KLM SERIES
Lockheed Martin
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INSTRUMENT COMPLEMENT

• AVHRR - Imaging radiometer (ITT A/CD)
• HIRS - Infrared sounder (ITT A/CD)
• AMSU-A - Microwave sounder (Northrup Grumman)
• AMSU-B - Microwave humidity sounder (U.K. Met
  Office)
• SBUV - Ozone instrument (Ball Aerospace)
• SEM - Space environment instrument (Panametrics)
• DCS - Data collection system (France)
• SARSAT - Search and rescue system (France
  Canada)

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Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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High-Resolution Infrared Sounder
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Advanced Microwave Sounding Units A/B
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Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer
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Space Environment Monitor
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INITIAL JOINT POLAR SYSTEM (IJPS)

• Two independent, but fully coordinated, polar
  satellite systems operated by
• NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric
  Administration
• EUMETSAT - European Organization for the
  Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• EUMETSAT to assume the morning constellation
• NOAA to continue the afternoon constellation
• Provide for the continuous collection and
  exchange of environmental data from space

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IJPS SATELLITES

• Metop-1 2
• 0930 MLST with Descending Node
• S-band Spacecraft Command and Control
• Direct broadcast with advanced HRPT and digital
  LRPT links
• Common instrument suite plus additional
  instruments

• NOAA-N N
• 1400 MLST with Ascending Node
• S-band Spacecraft Command and Control
• Direct broadcast with existing HRPT and analog
  APT links
• Common instrument suite plus additional
  instruments

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IJPS SYSTEM
POES NOAA N N
EPS METOP 1 2
Users
Product Processing
Product Processing
Satellite Control
Satellite Control
Command and Data Acquisition
Command and Data Acquisition
Communications
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NOAA-17 STATUS

• Launched June 24, 2002
• 1000 a.m. descending equator crossing time
• All deployments were successful
• Orbit parameters are very good
• Handover from NASA to NOAA occurred on July 14
• On-orbit Verification completed on August 7
• 159 on-line tests conducted, plus off-line
  analysis
• Declared NOAA-17 operational (i.e., the primary
  morning satellite) on October 1
• All instruments are operating nominally

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NOAA-15 vs NOAA-17
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NOAA-16 STATUS

• Launched September 2000
• Primary afternoon satellite
• Instruments are operating nominally
• Technical status
• APT transmitter is non-operational
• 1707 MHz (high S-band) transmitter is degraded
• HRPT moved to 1702 MHz (low S-band) transmitter

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SPACECRAFT PRODUCTION

• NOAA-N
• Thermal/Vacuum Testing complete
• Spacecraft being Prepared for storage in December
• Launch availability date is July 2003
• Planning launch date is June 2004
• NOAA-N
• Currently in acoustics/vibration testing
• Thermal Vacuum testing planned for May 2003
• Storage in October 2003.
• Launch availability date is June 2005
• Planning launch date is March 2008

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Thank You