Topic:  SARSAT Guam 4 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Station Offline


Date/Time Issued:  October 19, 2023 1207Z


Product(s) or Data Impacted:  SARSAT alert data


Date/Time of Initial Impact:   October 19, 2023 0453Z


Date/Time of Expected End:  TBD


Length of Outage:  TBD


Details/Specifics of Change: After a Hardware refresh  Guam 4 LEO Ground Station   began sending solution data marked with the wrong ground station ID, resulting in solution data not being processed from Guam 4 . The LUT vendor is working on repairing the issue.


Impact: Medium - Western Pacifica US AOR Distress detection/reporting may be delayed. LEOSAR distress alert detection/reporting may be delayed.GEOSAR and MEOSAR are operating nominally.


Contact Information for Further Information: USMCC Operationsusmcc@noaa.gov at 
301-817-4576

 

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