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

Date/Time Issued:December 27, 2018 1720Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: SARSAT alert data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 27, 2018 1335Z
Date/Time of Expected End:TBD

Length of Outage:TBD
Details/Specifics of Change: Maryland 1 GEO Ground Station in Suitland, MD stopped sending 406 MHz alert data on December 27, 2018 1335Z
Impact: Minor-There is no impact on distress alert detection/reporting timeliness due to the redundancy of the SARSAT GEOLUT 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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