SHINE 2009D.A. Biesecker

NOAA/SWPC Agency Talk

Outline

1) GOES Status

2) Transition Process

3) ACE Follow-on and Coronagraph

Payload Instrument

GOES-10

(South America)

Launch: Apr 97

Activation: Jul 98

Planned Deact: Nov 09

GOES-11

(West)

Launch: May 00

Activation: Jun 06

GOES-12

(East)

Launch: Jul 01

Activation: Apr 03

GOES-13

(Standby)

Launch: May 06

Energetic Particle Sensor (EPS) Y G Y G

Magnetometers G G G G

High Energy Proton and Alpha Detector

G G G G

X-Ray Sensor (XRS) G R R R

Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) N/A N/A R Y

KeyOperational

Operational with limitations

Non-operational

Not Applicable

G

R

Y

N/A

* GOES-14 will be reported once operational

GOES Space Weather Instrument Status

GOES-10: De-orbit scheduled for December, 2009 (only working XRS)

GOES-14: launched June 27, 2009

Test period from July – December, then will be placed in storage

XRS – GOES-14 XRS pointed at Sun Monday Aug 3 and will be made operational in December

EPS –GOES-12 is YELLOW due to noisy electron data and some failed proton channels

SXI – GOES-13 YELLOW due to 8 rows of CCD pixels being damaged – obscures part of solar disk

DE

-OR

BIT

DE

C 2009

Constellation Update - GOES

On-orbit GOES storage Operational

Calendar Year

2027202620252024202320222021202020192018201720162015

GOES O / GOES-14

GOES P

GOES R

201420132012201120102009

GOES 13

GOES 12

GOES 11

2007 2008

GOES 10 Backup

GOES - East

GOES - West

On-orbit Spare

GOES S

Satellite is operational beyond design life

As of June 29, 2009

2028

On-orbit Spare

TODAY

Numerical Model Transition Plans

Heliosphere Model: Predict conditions at L1 with 1-4 day lead time

WSA/ENLIL w/CME being transitioned by SWPC w/assistance from D. Odstrcil

Plan to make operational in 2012

Geospace Model: Given L1 data or prediction, predict ground level magnetic variation

SWPC has asked CCMC to carry out validation and verification studies on existing models

Announced to community in June

Started working with modelers at GEM meeting to coordinate agreeable competition standards

Yu and Ridley (2008)

Replacing ACE and SOHO/LASCO

NOAA working with NASA and USAF to hopefully fly DSCOVR (formerly TRIANA)

Proposed launch 2013

Existing InstrumentsMagnetometer

Faraday Cup (Plasma)

Proposed additionCoronagraph