Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scans scheduled for January 23-26, 2019

Date/Time Issued: January 22, 2019 1452 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI MESO-2 outages

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 23, 2019 M-B1933 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: January 26, 2019 0058 UTC

Length of Outage: M-BApproximately 2 minutes for each event. See schedule below.

M-B

Details/Specifics of Change:

Several, very short, GOES-16 and GOES-17 routine calibration scans for lunar trending will be performed on January 23-26, 2019 resulting in an outage of ABI MESO-2 products for about 2 minutes for each event. ABI MESO-1 will still be available during this time. The schedule is below.

M-B

GOES-16: January 23, 2019 M-B1933-1935 UTC and 1949-1951 UTC

GOES-17: January 23, 2019 M-B2339-2341 UTC

M-B

GOES-17: January 24, 2019 M-B0018-0020 UTC

M-B

GOES-16: January 25, 2019 M-B2039-2041 UTC and 2212-2214 UTC

GOES-17: January 25, 2019 M-B0133-0135 UTC

M-B

GOES-17: January 26, 2019 M-B0056-0058 UTC

M-B

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

Web Site(s) for applicable information:

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

This message was sent to ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request.^LM-BM-B