GOES
10 Status
- Operational (GOES-West at 135E W )
- S/C operating nominally in ‘inverted’ mode
- Launched April 25, 1997
- May 1997 - Solar array slowed, stopped & spacecraft placed in standby
- July 1997 - S/C was rotated (Yaw Flip), Solar Array successfully commanded into reverse mode
- May 1998 return S/C to storage mode until operational call-up.
- July 9, 1998: Successfully return from storage mode for anticipated operational replacement of GOES-9
- July 28: Data Collection Platform Interrogation (DCPI) transponder side-A failed, Operating on redundant side-B
- July 27, 1998: Operational (replaced GOES-9)
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