Topic: GOES-17 ABI Flight Software Update

Date/Time Issued: January 2, 2019 1858 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-17 ABI data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 3, 2018 M-B1800 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: January 3, 2018 2000 UTC

Length of Outage: M-BApproximately 2 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:

GOES-17 ABI will be brought offline to implement a flight software update. The ABI will be turned off at approximately 1800 UTC on Thursday 3 January and will be down approximately 2 hours. GOES-17 ABI may experience degraded performance upon return to service while image navigation performance converges.


GOES-17 is not operational. This activity will not be cancelled in the event of a critical weather day declaration.


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