Date/Time
Issued: November 14,
2018 1455 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Cancellation
of EUMETSAT's Prime Satellite (0 degree)
Meteosat-11 MSG HRIT Data from NOAA's U.S. DOMSAT
Broadcast
Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 16,
2018
Date/Time of Expected End:Indefinitely
Details/Specifics of Change: In
coordination with EUMETSAT, NOAA/NESDIS plans to
terminate its U.S. DOMSAT direct broadcast of MSG
0 degree Prime satellite data (MSG-4; Meteosat-11)
on November 16, 2018. This data service
termination isdue in large part to obsolete
equipment, limited distribution capacity and other
factors such as the availability of robust data
delivery systems.
In
parallel with the U.S. DOMSAT service, NOAA/NESDIS
has Meteosat-11 HRIT data available for its
authorized users from its Product Distribution and
Access (PDA) system (24x7 support) and from STAR
FTP services (best effort support). In
preparation for the cancellation of the U.S.
DOMSAT MSG broadcast service, 24x7 operational
users can request access to the MSG 0 degree Prime
Meteosat-11 data from the NESDIS PDA or for
non-operational users, from NESDIS STAR. Please
contact "nesdis.data.access@noaa.gov" for
additional information to acquire Meteosat-11 data from
either of these alternate NESDIS data distribution
sources.