November 1998

 

Table 35.1: GBES Tracking Pass Summary for November 1998

		no	% lost			Attended	Unattended
pass	% good	op.	total	hardware	software	% recovered	% recoverable	exp	notes
9811052356	0.00								Canceled; APS not started
9811070117	99.10								Two phase glitches
9811080236	99.63
9811082120	87.15	X*	12				100		Antenna inhibited (snow night before)
9811092359	99.79								One phase glitch
9811102358	0.00								No HALCA downlink signal
9811111842	90.15								HALCA Ku antenna wrap
9811120117	99.02								HALCA Ku antenna wrap
9811122013	95.28								HALCA signal disappeared 4 min. early
9811132124	97.24								phase glitch; HALCA Ku antenna wrap
9811142244	0.00								No HALCA downlink signal
9811161841	0.00								NO HALCA downlink; APS/Telemetry problem

There was a total of 12 tracking passes in November of 1998 with 1 of these being an unattended tracking pass. Of the 11 attended tracking passes 11 collected the maximum amount of valid data possible. The 1 unattended tracking pass only did not collect the maximum amount of good data. There were 4 tracking passes that lost data due to problems on HALCA.

$\bullet$ 11 of 11 attended passes had max good data.

$\bullet$ 0 of 1 unattended passes had max good data.

$\bullet$ Operators would have increased amount of good data in 1 of 1 ``bad'' unattended passes.

$\bullet$ A total of 4.00 tracking passes lost data due to problems with HALCA.

$\bullet$ A total of 0.12 tracking passes lost data due to incliment weather.