Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 30 Issue 2 (addition of announcement 4950)

Date/Time Issued: July 22, 2019 1204Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 22, 2019 1152Z (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End: See table in detail for on and off switch time

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

Message number: 6014
Message creation: Mon Jul 22 11:52:04 GMT+00:00 2019


Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4872
Rev: 3
Start Time: 2019-06-24 13:32:00.0
Satellites: Suomi NPP
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Planned maintenance but the exact date is still to be confirmed: NOAA will perform a switch of the SNPP CrIS electronics from the current side-1 to the redundant side-2, in order to recover from a CrIS midwave signal processor failure that occurred on side-1. All CrIS data will be unavailable for a two week period as instrument adjustments are being performed, followed by a 12-week Calibration/Validation effort. [Rev 2]: Direct broadcast added to affected services.[Rev 3]:Exact date for start of outage confirmed, updated the start time.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-06-24 09:03:52.0
Services: EARS-CrlS
NDB (NOAA Direct Broadcast)
CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 4920
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: There is an issue with the latest EUMETCast software package, affecting Linux operating systems when the Tellicast client software (version 2.14.5) is used in combination with the Safenet drivers. A new alpha version of Tellicast, with a fix of the issue, is available for download. See the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4451027.html
Issue Time: 2019-06-27 11:18:18.0
Services:

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4952
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-13 12:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-30 13:00:00.0
Satellites: GOES17
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: GOES-17 ABI Loop Heat Pipe anomaly will impact bands 8 through 16 in the given time period every day around 12:40 UTC. There will be a gradual degradation in image quality over one or several images with some complete outages. This process will cycle through varied degradation through November 30, 2019. The duration of the degradation and outage periods will vary by channel and by date.
Url: https://www.goes-r.gov/users/GOES-17-ABI-Performance.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-12 12:09:09.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4963
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-22 14:07:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-22 14:14:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Gain Compression
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-17 13:50:44.0
Services: ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B
OSI SAF - Products
EARS-ASCAT

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4968
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-23 08:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-23 10:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Firmware upgrade on some Eumetsat servers. Low risk of service interruption.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-18 16:19:45.0
Services:

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4962
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-23 08:30:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-23 08:37:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-17 13:49:17.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4961
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-23 08:57:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-23 09:04:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-17 13:48:32.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4967
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-23 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-25 09:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-10
Subject: monthly-RSS-interruption
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Monthly interruption. Meteosat-10 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-9 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the Meteosat-10 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not available during this timeframe. An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-9.
Issue Time: 2019-07-17 14:17:58.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4964
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-23 09:38:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-23 09:45:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-17 13:51:43.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4965
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-23 09:38:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-23 11:21:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: TED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-17 13:52:50.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4966
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-07-25 05:12:00.0
End Time: 2019-07-25 09:12:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-18 07:15:02.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-C
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 4759
Rev: 3
Start Time: 2019-08-06 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-08-08 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: New algorithm for the Meteosat Active Fire Monitoring (FIR) product to be rolled-out as part of MSG MPEF (Meteosat Product Extraction Facility) Release 2.8, towards end of June 2019 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details and sample data of the new FIR product, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Date changed to 23-25 July 2019. [Rev. 3]: Date changed to 06-08 August 2019.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4372427.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-18 08:25:11.0
Services: 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 4950
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2019-08-08 07:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-08-08 15:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: IASI TOP upload (on-board processing update). Users should expect an instrument outage of around 50 minute at some point during this period. The coding table will be updated. There will be no change to the reduced spectra. The exact time will be announced closer to the event. [Rev 2]: Date updated. Description updated.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-07-22 08:59:06.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
EARS-IASI
OSI SAF - Products
IASI AHRPT Metop-B

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