[NELSON111]

NOAA GOES sats eclipse during this time of year. They are blocked from the sun's light and since they run on Solar power...don't have the energy to run the instruments to they are shut off. It lasts for 48 days each cycle and is greatest (3 hours or so) near the equinox. We are at this point so expect an outage of about 3 hours tonight.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

>NOAA GOES sats eclipse during this time of year. They are blocked from the sun's light and since they run on Solar power...don't have the energy to run the instruments to they are shut off. It lasts for 48 days each cycle and is greatest (3 hours or so) near the equinox. We are at this point so expect an outage of about 3 hours tonight.

Looks like I stand corrected. Thanks for the piece of info. With the sun "near" the equator at the equinox it makes sense that even something as high as geosync would eclipse near local midnight. Duh!