Topic: GOES-16 EXIS quarterly calibration scans scheduled for November 27-30, 2018

Date/Time Issued: November 20, 2018 1805 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 EXIS product outage and SUVI outages with certain scans

Date/Time of Initial Impact:November 27, 2018 1722 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: November 30, 2018 1657 UTC

Length of Outage: See schedule below

Details/Specifics of Change:

Several GOES-16 EXIS quarterly calibration scans will occur from November 27-30, 2018 following the schedule below: M-B

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An EXIS FOV map calibration will occur on November 27, 2018 from 1722 -1822 UTC resulting in an outage of all EXIS and SUVI products for 1 hour.

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An EXIS cruciform scan will occur on November 28, 2018 from 1423 -1600 UTC resulting in an outage of all EXIS and SUVI products for 1 hour and 37 minutes.

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An EXIS off-point calibration will occur on November 29, 2018 from 0302-0312 UTC resulting in an outage of all EXIS and SUVI products for 10 minutes.

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An EXIS EUVS C readdout noise calibration will occur on November 30, 2018 from 1655 - 1657 UTC resulting in an outage of all EXIS products for 2 minutes.

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Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or 301-817-3880

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Web Site(s) for applicable information:

See https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages.

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