Topic: SARSAT Hawaii Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Ground Station Offline

Date/Time Issued:January 14, 2019 2238Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 14, 2019 2122Z

Date/Time of Expected End:TBD

Length of Outage:TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:SARSAT Hawaii Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Ground Station alert data has been taken offlinedue to degraded location accuracies in the MEOLUT calculated positions.The MEOLUT vendor has been notified and an initialanomalymeeting was convened to discussoperational actions. The USMCC is filtering HI-MEO data until the anomalous condition has been corrected.

Impact:Significant-Western Pacifica Search and Rescue region's MEOSAR distress detection/reporting is delayed. LEOSAR and GEOSAR are nominal.

Contact Information for Further Information:USMCC Operationsusmcc@noaa.govat301-817-4576

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