GOES 8 Image Data Outages

GOES-8 data collection from the ground station located at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center in Huntsville, Alabama may be interrupted for a number of reasons. This occurs because of hardware problems and occasional maintenance. Currently we are experiencing signal probems which result in an occasional missing line or two. We are working to fix this problem.

Additional data loss may occur because of problems at Wallops Flight Facility which is the host for the initial downlink of GOES data (ground stations receive a streched second transmission of the data from the satellite).

The normal GOES scan schedule for images may be interrupted because of non-local problems such as single chord operations, solar eclipse (both for GOES-8 and when GOES-8 is covering for GOES-10 which may be eclipse), and for rapid scan data collection.

Check out the the on-line index of satellite data at the Space Science and Engineering Center in Madison, Wisconsin to check if the satellite collected the data you are looking for.

Last updated on: November 2, 1999