1. 42nd Argos Operations Committee Meeting Assmannshausen, GERMANY June 3 - 5, 2008 ARGOS OPERATIONS

2. HIGHLIGHTS 2 ARGOS satellites decommissioned (NOAA 12 and 14)
METOP A Data delivered to all ARGOS users on August 1st, 2007
METOP HRPT OFF since July 5th, 2007
ARGOS2001 Phase3 in operation since September 9th, 2007
9 new antennae added to ARGOS Realtime network
2 Regional Processing Centers OFF
Power outage test done successfully in October 2007

3. GROUND STATIONS Global stations (3) Regional stations (56)
Fairbanks & Wallops Island : Nominal – average of 14 datasets per day from N15-18
Svalbard: Average of minute data
files per day from METOP-A
Regional stations (56)
6 (7) USAF antenna connected in March 2007
Libreville (Gabon) connected in April 2007
No real-Time Reception from METOP A

4. GROUND STATION COVERAGE REGIONAL

5. ARGOS SPACE SEGMENT:2007 NOAA 12 NOAA 14 NOAA 15 NOAA 16 NOAA 17
(1991)
NOAA 14
( )
NOAA 15
NOAA 16
NOAA 17
NOAA 18
(2005)
ARGOS 1
ARGOS 2
METOP A
(May 2007)
ARGOS 3
(1998)
(2000)
(2002)

6. SATELLITE ORBITAL PLANES

7. PROCESSING CENTERS Global Processing Centers
Nominal
800 data sets per day (1000 in ’07)
ARGOS2001 Phase3A into Operation in September
Regional Processing Center
Lima:Nominal operation
Djarkarta and Tokyo were de-activated in 2007
Orbitography beacons: Review contact point.

8. STIP DATA
ARRIVAL TIMES

10. 2006 STATISTICS Daily Active PTT: > 9500 (9,000)
Monthly Active PTT: > (17,000)
Messages : > per day(1,000,000)
Locations : > per day (70,000)
Services availability : > 99,77% (99.6%)

11. STATISTICS GRAPH
SYSTEM AVAILABILITY

13. On average, ARGOSWEB receives 100 connexions per day

14. PERSPECTIVES Argos-3 (Downlink) into Operation
ARGOS2001 Phase3B in operation
New Antennae into the EARS network
Monthly Argos operation report to be available*
*Throughput times calculation have been redefined and will be implemented in Statistics on throughput times will be again available in Mid-2008.