Topic: Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver
Date/Time Issued: April 20, 2021 0135Z
Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available. The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-B will be temporarily degraded
Date/Time Initial Implementation: April 21, 2021 (JDAY 111) 0710Z
Date/Time Expected End: April 21, 2021 (JDAY 111) 1344Z
Length of Outage: ~ 6.5 hours
A Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed April 21, 2021 (JDAY 111) with preparations starting at 07:10 UTC.
For this maneuver some instruments will not be producing data. The data outage times are listed below. Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed.
The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument will be performed at 15:16 UTC.
Instrument |
Deactivation Time |
Normal Operation |
AMSU-A1 |
07:10 |
13:05 |
AMSU-A2 |
07:10 |
13:05 |
HIRS |
07:10 |
13:05 |
IASI |
07:10 |
13:05 |
MHS |
07:10 |
13:05 |
SEM |
07:10 |
13:05 |
GOME |
10:21 |
13:44 |
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☒
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