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Form No.: MSA/SRD/QF/09C

INMCC OPERATIONS REPORT
/July-2015

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Indian Mission Control Centre (INMCC)
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ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)

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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
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Department of Space, Government of India
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1. /Classification : /Restricted

2. /Report Number : // /07/2015

ISTRAC/INMCC/TR/07/2015

3. /Report Date : 07 /August 2015

4. /Report Type : /Technical Report

5. /Title : - 2015
INMCC Status Operations- July 2015

6. /Abstract : 2015 -

( )
/This report provides details
of LUT-INMCC System Operations and
search and rescue (SAR) activities for
July -2015.

7. /Prepared by : /SVS Sambasiva Rao

/MA Vinod Kumar

/PV Raghunath
/Jisha Janardhanan

8. /Reviewed by: . ,
Dr. NK Shrivastava, Manager, INMCC

9. /Approved by: /M Ambarisha Babu

, /Deputy Director, MSSA
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INMCC/ISTRAC INMCC Operations Report

MONTHLY REPORT ON INDIAN LUTs AND MCC STATUS AND OPERATIONS

/Date of reporting : 07 /August 2015

/Origin : , /,
INMCC, ISTRAC/ISRO, Bangalore
/Time period : /July 2015

Highlights:
All the operational support from INMCC was Normal.
INMCC received 31 distress alerts in Indian service area, out of which 11 distress alerts were from
foreign beacons and 20 distress alerts received from Indian beacons, out of which 16 were registered
with INMCC. Concerned authorities are requested to get remaining 04 beacons registered in INMCC
database. (Refer: Table: 1A). Status of 3 beacons was unknown (2 foreign and 1 Indian).
SPOCs service area, 12 distress alerts were received, out of which feedback received for 04 alerts.
(Refer: Table -1).
During this month new beacons registered are 105, beacons deregistered are 47 and beacons updated
are 201 (Refer Section 2.2).

Beacon registration can be done on-line through our website https://inmcc.istrac.org or https://220.227.66.160

1. Space Segment

1.1 LEO Spacecraft in operations: SARSAT - 7, 10, 11, 12, 13

1.2 GEO Spacecraft operations status: INSAT-3D (located at 82.0 deg E)

2. System Operations

2.1 System Availability

LCK GEOLUT COMM
BLR LUT INMCC Remarks
LUT LINK
100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Nil

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2.2 INMCC Web-based Beacon Registration Statistics

New Beacons Beacons
Beacons Updated Net increase in Beacon Population
Registered De-registered
M A P T M A P T M A P T M A P T

36 55 14 105 60 66 75 201 15 31 1 47 21 24 13 58

Note: Till now total registered beacons are M: 8206, A: 3250 and P: 2947.
Legends: M- Maritime, A Aviation, P- Personal (PLB), T- Total.

2.3 Location Confirmed Alert Statistics:

Service Area Maritime (EPIRB) Aviation (ELT) Personal (PLB)

Sub Grand
Total Total
Alert Type RA ND UD TL RA ND UD TL RA ND UD TL

Indian Reg 14 14 1 1 1 1 16
Indian Unreg
1 1 2 1 3 4
Beacons
Total Indian
Beacons in 15 15 3 1 4 1 1 20 20
Indian SRR
Foreign
Beacons in 7 2 9 2 2 11 11
Indian SRR
Total
Beacons in 22 2 24 5 1 6 1 1 31*
Indian SRR
Beacons in
4 5 9 3 3 12 12
SPOCs SRR
Total Beacons in
INMCC SA. 43

*Total no. of DD Fisheries, Kerala beacons: 11

Legend: INMCC SA- INMCC SERVICE AREA, RA- Real Alert, ND-Non-Distress, UD-Undetermined, TL- Total

2.4 Location Confirmed / Unconfirmed Alerts Classification as per RCCs/MRCCs/SPOCs Service Area:

Kolkata Chennai Delhi Mumbai Port Blair Sub Total Grand Total
Service
Area
LCA LUA Msgs LCA LUA Msgs LCA LUA Msgs LCA LUA Msgs LCA LUA Msgs LCA LUA Msgs LCA LUA Msgs

RCCs 15 42 4 20 123 1 7 18 2 30 110 7 72 293

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MRCCs 1 18 38 23 42 186 6 13 24 66 237

Indian SRR 31 138 530 31 138 530

SPOCs
12 24 487
SRR

TOTAL 43 162 1017

Legend: LCA (Location Confirmed Alert), LUA (Location Unconfirmed Alert), Msgs (Messages)

2.5 QMS (Quality Management System) System Operation Status Messages Transmitted:

QMS GEOSAR QMS LEOSAR

Satellite INSAT-3D S7 S10 S11 S12 S13 TOTAL

Messages
2987 830 784 859 866 901 4240
Transmitted

2.6 Distress Incidents Supported by INMCC since Jan 1990 (INMCC service area):
121.5 MHz 406 MHz Total
No. of No. of lives No. of lives Total No. of
No. of incidents No. of lives saved
incidents saved saved incidents
12 31 93 1899 105 1930

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Table 1
Location Confirmed Alerts Detected in INMCC SPOCs Service Area

First
INMCC No. of Service Resolved Registration
Sl. No. BCN Details First Detection Last Detection Detected Feedback Status
Ref. Detections Area Location Details
Satellite
C48900CA74D34D1
548
SARSAT 22 31.2N,
1 68816 PHILIPPINE 7/2/15 8:35 PM 7/2/15 11:29 PM 4 Bangladesh NA ---- UNKNOWN
12 91 41.2E
MARITIME
394100
1A4563F502FFBFF
ISTRAC/ISRO:
210 Vessel Owner has
SARSAT 22 29.2N, ABANDON
2 69132 CYPRUS 7/5/15 7:29 AM 7/13/15 3:07 AM 168 Bangladesh NA reported that it is
12 91 41.8E ED
LP-STD EPIRB MMSI under scrap at
scrapyard.
729000
B42642AA627BF41
417
SARSAT 6 49.3N,
3 69226 SRI LANKA 7/6/15 7:15 AM 7/6/15 8:55 AM 2 Srilanka NA ------ UNKNOWN
12 79 54.0E
AVIATION
4R-MVS

First
INMCC No. of Service Resolved Registration
Sl. No. BCN Details First Detection Last Detection Detected Feedback Status
Ref. Detections Area Location Details
Satellite
2264A87512FFBFF MRCC Mumbai:
275 beacon belongs to MV
SARSAT 22 21.5N, BALTICUM. MRCC ABANDON
4 70300 LATVIA 7/14/15 4:26 AM 7/14/15 5:13 AM 2 Bangladesh NA RIGA intimated that
13 91 46.6E ED
LP-STD EPIRB MMSI the vessel had broken
up since NOV 2011
345000

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AEE8D28134D3431 ISTRAC/ISRO:
375 Beacon radiating
SARSAT Bangladesh, 22 25.2N, ABANDON
5 70552 ST VINCENT 7/15/15 11:59 PM 7/24/15 12:07 AM 202 NA for last 8 days
10 Foreign 91 44.0E ED
MARITIME continuously. No
distress reported
045000
C1A8D74128C28D1
525
SARSAT 22 26.1N,
6 70894 INDONESIA 7/18/15 8:56 PM 7/18/15 11:31 PM 3 Bangladesh NA -: - UNKNOWN
12 91 44.2E
MARITIME
015484
1A85D24F02FFBFF MRCC Mumbai:
212 E-MAIL RECEIVED
SARSAT 22 20.3N, FROM JRCC ABANDON
7 71886 CYPRUS 7/25/15 7:38 PM 7/26/15 4:23 AM 7 Bangladesh NA LARANC VESSEL
12 91 46.8E UNDER SCRAP YARD
ED
LP-STD EPIRB MMSI AT CHITGAON
955000 BANGLADESH

B42642AA627BF41
417
SARSAT 6 48.9N,
8 72146 SRI LANKA 7/27/15 3:11 PM 7/27/15 4:05 PM 2 Srilanka NA -: - UNKNOWN
11 79 52.9E
AVIATION
4R-MVS
54486A52B6FFBFF
674
SARSAT 6 13.7S,
9 72244 TANZANIA 7/28/15 8:07 AM 7/28/15 11:29 AM 2 Tanzania NA -: - UNKNOWN
13 39 13.3E
LP-STD SERIAL ELT
10587
First
INMCC No. of Service Resolved Registration
Sl. No. BCN Details First Detection Last Detection Detected Feedback Status
Ref. Detections Area Location Details
Satellite
9DA8D0DD34D34D1
237
SARSAT 22 1.5N,
10 72616 GREECE 7/30/15 2:12 PM 7/30/15 3:52 PM 3 Bangladesh NA -: - UNKNOWN
11 92 3.2E
MARITIME
091000

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CF88D7590DC70D1
636
SARSAT Bangladesh, 23 12.8N,
11 72512 LIBERIA 7/30/15 2:13 PM 7/31/15 9:51 PM 9 NA -- UNKNOWN
11 MRCC-CH 91 10.4E
MARITIME
012977
2DCC751590FFBFF
366
22 18.8N,
12 72780 USA 7/31/15 2:38 PM 7/31/15 2:46 PM 2 INSAT 04 Bangladesh NA -- UNKNOWN
91 47.6E
LP-STD SERIAL
EPIRB
2760

Legends: NR Not registered, NA- Not applicable.

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