Date/Time
Issued:
February 16,
2018 1655
UTC
Date/Time
of Initial
Impact:
February 20,
2018 0900
UTC
Date/Time
of Expected
End:
Until further
notice
Length of
Outage/Impacts:
N/A
Details/Specifics
of Change:On
February 20,
2018, at 0900
UTC, EUMETSAT
plans to
transfer its
prime
geostationary
satellite
operations at
0 degrees from
Meteosat-10
(MSG-3) to
Meteosat-11
(MSG-4).
Meteosat-11 is
in the same
Meteosat
Second
Generation
(MSG) series
of
Meteosat-10,
both having
the same
instrument
specifications.
For U.S. users
of the NOAA
DOMSAT
service,
Meteosat-10
HRIT data
broadcast will
be replaced
with
Meteosat-11
HRIT data;
changes in the
DOMSAT receive
stations are
not required.
Current
Meteosat-10
products
available from
NOAA/NESDIS'
data
distribution
servers will
be replaced
with
Meteosat-11
data at the
time of
transition.
EUMETSAT also
notes the
first two
letters, "IU,"
will be
maintained in
the
Meteosat-11
product
bulletin
headers for
GTS
dissemination
starting 0900
UTC, February
20, 2018.
Point
of Contact for
Further
Information:
ESPC
Operations at
ESPCOperations@noaa.gov
at 301-817-3880