Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 21, 2020 21:59Z (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: | 7314 |
| Message creation: | Wed Oct 21 1547Z 2020 |
| Type: | Service Alert |
| Ann Nr: | 6363 |
| Rev: | 1 |
| Start Time: | 2020-10-21 05:10:00.0 |
| End Time: | N/A |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-3B |
| Subject: | service change |
| Impact: | data-unavailable |
| Detail: | Starting at 2020/10/21 21:59Z , start of cycle 45, the Sentinel-3B SRAL altimeter will start to operate in Open Loop mode in higher latitudes, up to 75 degrees in certain areas over land, compared to the previous 60 degrees latitude. There is no change for Greenland and Antarctica areas. Improvements over inland hydrological targets are expected, with no impact over open ocean surfaces. |
| Status: | scheduled |
| Issue Time: | 2020-10-21 15:07:56.0 |
| Services: |
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SRAL L2P Marine Products - S3B |
| Name: | EUMETSAT |
| Address: | Eumetsat-Allee 1 D-64295 Darmstadt Germany |
| Telephone: | +49 6151 807 3660/3770 |
| Fax: | +49 6151 807 3790 |
| E-mail: | ops@eumetsat.int |
| Internet: | www.eumetsat.int |
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