Topic:  Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver

Date/Time (UTC) Message Issued:  September 27, 2021 2140Z

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-C will be temporarily degraded

Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation:  September 29, 2021 (JDAY 272) 07:30 Z

Date/Time (UTC) Expected End:  September 29, 2021 (JDAY 272) 14:11 Z

Length of Outage:  ~ 7 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:    

Details/Specifics of Change:       

A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Sep 29, 2021 (JDAY 272) with preparations starting at 07:30 Z.

 

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 15:39 UTC.

 

Instrument

Deactivation Time

Normal Operation

AMSU-A1

07:30

13:20

AMSU-A2

07:31

13:22

HIRS

N/A

N/A

IASI

07:30

13:24

MHS

07:32

13:14

SEM

07:32

13:19

GOME

10:48

14:11

 

Spacecraft Affected:  NOAA-15 ☐  NOAA-16 ☐  NOAA-17 ☐  NOAA-18 ☐  NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☐ Metop-C ☒

 

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