Topic: Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 44

Date/Time Issued: October 31, 2019 1600Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 31, 2019 1545Z (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: 6347
Message creation: Thu Oct 31 15:45:46 GMT+00:00 2019

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: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5128
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-09-30 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-15 09:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Metop-A Technology Test Campaign I (one) execution: possible data disruptions or outages. More information will be given in specific instruments announcements.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-09-04 12:26:30.0
Services:

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5316
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 06:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: new-product
Detail: Addition on EUMETCast of Daily Logs for METOP-C IASI Level-2 data for EUMETCast Africa. Example filename: E-UNS_-EPS_M03_-IASI_L2____A-DAILY_LOG-191029_01-201910300607-___; EUMETCast Channel: A1C-Info-Channel-2, multicast address: 224.223.225.5, PID:100.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 14:15:51.0
Services: EUMETCast-Africa

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5317
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 06:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: new-product
Detail: Addition on EUMETCast of Daily Logs for METOP-C IASI Level-2 data for EUMETCast Europe. Example filename: E-UNS_-EPS_M03_-IASI_L2____E-DAILY_LOG-191029_01-201910300607-___; EUMETCast Channel: Info-Channel-2, multicast address: 224.223.222.36, PID:100.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 14:03:54.0
Services: EUMETCast-Europe

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5318
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 06:58:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-05 06:59:00.0
Satellites: MET-8
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 14:10:19.0
Services: IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5313
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 08:24:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-05 08:31:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 13:33:43.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5314
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 08:24:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-05 10:07:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: SEM
Component: TED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 13:34:31.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5308
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 08:30:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-05 16:30:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-delay
Detail:
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 11:12:13.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5311
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 08:58:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-05 09:05:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 13:31:58.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5310
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-05 09:25:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-05 09:32:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 13:30:51.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5292
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-06 08:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-06 16:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: 2 short interruptions (of 2 seconds) are expected, at 08:30 UTC and 15:15 UTC leading to some losses. There is a low risk of further interruptions during the indicated time period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-23 12:39:43.0
Services: EUMETCast-Europe

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5321
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-07 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Suomi NPP
Subject: VIIRS Lunar Roll
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Lunar Calibration.The exact time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-31 10:27:40.0
Services: EARS-VIIRS
EARS-CrlS
ATMS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP
CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP
VIIRS EDR - Suomi-NPP
SNPP-JPSS

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5322
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-07 00:00:00.0
Satellites: NOAA-20
Subject: VIIRS Lunar Roll
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Lunar Calibration.The exact time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-31 10:29:56.0
Services: ATMS Level 1 - JPSS
CrIS Level 1 - JPSS
VIIRS EDR - JPSS
SNPP-JPSS

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5312
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-10 05:12:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-10 09:12:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: External Calibration
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 13:32:52.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-A
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-A
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5266
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-12 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-18 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: End of Life technology test for IASI.Short interruptions can be expected during the testing.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-16 12:59:16.0
Services: IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A
IASI Level 1 - Metop-A
EARS-IASI
IASI AHRPT Metop-A
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5309
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-14 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-14 09:00:00.0
Subject: new-product
Detail: GOES-West GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper) products from NOAA to be available on EUMETCast Europe. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4692027.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 12:19:35.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5323
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-18 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-31 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Calibrations to support transponder test. Outages of products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-31 10:42:08.0
Services: ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5320
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-20 12:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-20 12:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-31 09:53:11.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
SEM L0 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
A-DCS AHRPT Metop-B
AVHRR AHRPT Metop-B
GRAS AHRPT Metop-B
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-B
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B
HIRS AHRPT Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B
MHS AHRPT Metop-B
IASI AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 5315
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-25 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-04 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: AMSU-A
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: End of Life technology test for AMSU.Short interruptions can be expected during the testing.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 13:40:07.0
Services: AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-A
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5319
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-11-28 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-11-28 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The MODIS Total Precipitable Water products from NASA will stop being distributed on EUMETCast Europe.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-30 16:09:06.0
Services: MODIS Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5295
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-05 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Release of new IASI Level 2 PPF (Product Processing Facility) version 6.5. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4686627.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-24 08:37:28.0
Services: IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A
IASI Sounding products- Metop-C
AC SAF - Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5293
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2019-12-12 09:00:00.0
Subject: service-change
Detail: Regional EARS data from the USA will no longer be available on EUMETCast from 12/12/2019. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4682634.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-10-23 12:49:46.0
Services: EARS-ATOVS

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 5159
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2020-06-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: A new BUFR encoding sequence will be introduced in June 2020 for all EUMETSATM-bM-^@M-^Ys wind products. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below.
Url: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4593260.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2019-09-11 16:22:14.0
Services: 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C
Multi-Metop Wind Products

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