Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scans scheduled for December 6-8, 2019

Date/Time Issued: December 3, 2019 1956Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 6, 2019 1607Z

Date/Time of Expected End: December 8, 2019 1845Z

Length of Outage: Approximately 2 minutes for each event. See schedule below.

Details/Specifics of Change: Several, very short, GOES-16 and GOES-17 routine calibration scans for lunar trending will be performed on December 6-8, 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.

Impact Times:
GOES-16:
M-BM-BM-B M-BM-7 12/07/19 (DOY 341) M-bM-^@M-^S 12:35:33 UTC & 14:04:07 UTC

M-BM-BM-B M-BM-712/08/19 (DOY 342) M-bM-^@M-^S 13:30:40 UTC & 14:34:08 UTC

GOES-17:
M-BM-BM-B M-BM-712/06/19 (DOY 340) M-bM-^@M-^S 16:07:41 UTC & 17:40:21 UTC

M-BM-BM-B M-BM-712/08/19 (DOY 341) M-bM-^@M-^S 17:50:24 UTC & 18:45:43 UTC

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