Update #1:After the LUT vendor applied software that fixed the location errors, the ground stations returned to normal operations.

Topic: SARSAT Florida 3-4, Hawaii 3-4 and LME Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Ground Stations Offline

Date/Time Issued: August 12, 2019 1707Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: SARSAT alert data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 23, 2019 2304Z

Date/Time of Expected End: August 12, 2019 1650Z

Length of Outage: 19 days, 17 hours and 46 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change: Alert data from LEOLUTs FL3, FL4, HI3, HI4, and LME (all with the same core software) is being filtered, due to multiple large Doppler location errors from this set of LUTs tracking different LEO satellites.

I mpact: Minor - HI1, HI2, FL1, FL2 and LSE are all still operational and operating nominally at this time.

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