Topic: Suomi-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibration Scheduled for June 23, 2018

Date/Time Issued: June 21, 2018 2238Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: VIIRS Sensor Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: Jun 23, 2018 1250Z

Date/Time of Expected End: Jun 23, 2018 1256Z

Length of Outage: See Details.

Details/Specifics of Change: Suomi-NPP will perform a VIIRS Lunar Calibration on Jun 23, 2018 centered at 12:52:51 UTC. There is no spacecraft maneuver required for this calibration. VIIRS Science data will be impacted during the calibration. The timeline of events for this maneuver are provided below.

The following observatory systems will be affected on 2018 March 27:

12:50:19Z M-bM-^@M-^S 12:55:23Z M-BVIIRS encoder offset and gain will be set for Moon observation

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