Topic: S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibration Roll Maneuver Scheduled for May 22, 2021

Date/Time Issued: May 21 20:40Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All S-NPP Sensor Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 22, 2021 18:17:16Z

Date/Time of Expected End: May 22, 2021 19:13:16Z

Length of Outage: See Details.

Details/Specifics of change: On May 22, 2021 , S-NPP will perform a spacecraft attitude maneuver for the VIIRS Lunar Calibration, with a roll of -2.18 degrees centered at 18:40:16Z. Science data may be impacted while the spacecraft is pointing off-nadir during the attitude maneuver and the CERES instrument will not provide nominal science data as it will be placed in a contamination safe mode. The timeline of events for this maneuver are provided below.

The following observatory systems will be affected on May 22, 2021 :

18:17:16Z – 19:13:16Z CERES will be in Contam-Safe and Standby, science data will not be available

18:32:16Z – 18:48:16Z HRD will be off, data for direct broadcast users will be unavailable

18:36:46Z – 18:43:47Z VIIRS encoder offset and gain will be set for Moon observation
18:37:16Z – 18:43:16Z S-NPP will be pointing off-nadir, collected data may be impacted and not disseminated. ATMS data may be perturbed due to maneuver-induced spacecraft vibrations

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