Date/Time Issued: January 10, 2019 1545 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Meteosat-11 Data
and Products
Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 21, 2019
0900 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: January 28, 2019
0900 UTC
Length of Data Outage: 7 days
Details/Specifics of
Change: From January 21 - 28, 2019, EUMETSAT
plans to perform a decontamination of the Meteosat-11
(Prime satellite; 0 degrees longitude) SEVIRI
instrument. Meteosat-11 data will be interrupted during
this time period and Meteosat-9 data will be
disseminated as a backup data source. Meteosat-9 data
will be rectified to 0 degrees.
As Meteosat-9 data will
be available from EUMETSAT, NOAA's users should not
expect an interruption in MSG 0 degree data and product
delivery during this scheduled event.