opic: GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan


Date/Time Issued: March 20, 2020 2053Z


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


Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 20 2020 0310 UTC


Date/Time of Expected End: April 1, 2020 0320 UTC


Length of Outage
: Approximately 5 minutes at the beginning of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations


Details/Specifics of Change: On January 29, 2020, GOES-17 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 0310-0320UTC. A GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 0310-0315 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minutes Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 0320 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 0320UTC.


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