Topic:  Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 49 Issue 3 (Announcements: Addition of 7629 and 7630)

Date/Time Issued: December 03, 2021  1426Z

 Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.

 Date/Time of Initial Impact:  December 03, 2021 1421Z  (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: 8525
Message creation: Fri Dec 03 14:21:18 UTC 2021


Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7523
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-11-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-07 09:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-10
Subject: yearly-RSS-interruption
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Yearly interruption. Meteosat-10 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. No gap-filling will be provided.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-10-28 09:27:02.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7609
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2021-12-03 02:50:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-03 03:02:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: The exact times will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. [Rev. 2] Event Start and End times updated. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 12:34:10.0
Services: SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7621
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-06 13:33:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-06 18:54:00.0
Satellites: Suomi NPP
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Installation of two software updates by NOAA OSPO engineering team: the first to improve S-NPP CrIS instrument scene selection module auto-safing behaviour and the second to install a new calibration table. During that process, no CrIS Science data from S-NPP will be available.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 16:29:06.0
Services: CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7618
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-06 14:50:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-06 14:57:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Gain Compression
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 16:13:16.0
Services: EARS-ASCAT
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B
OSI SAF - Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7582
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-01-31 00:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subsystem: ASCAT
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Calibrations to support transponder test.. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-11-17 14:58:54.0
Services: ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7614
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 02:55:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-07 03:08:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-02 11:00:32.0
Services: SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7619
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-08 16:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Planned maintenance activity on the Data Store storage layer. Users can experience delays when accessing data
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-02 12:58:00.0
Services: Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7616
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 09:13:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-07 09:20:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: TED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 14:41:02.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7617
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 09:13:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-07 10:56:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: TED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 14:42:52.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7620
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 13:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-09 15:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: EARS Kangerlussuaq Station Network maintenance. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT regional services during the following periods: on 07 December 2021 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC, and on 09 December 2021 between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 15:10:01.0
Services: EARS-ATOVS
EARS-MWRI
EARS-ASCAT
EARS-AVHRR
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-NWC
EARS-VASS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-MERSI

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7615
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-07 18:43:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-07 18:44:00.0
Satellites: MET-8
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-01 14:28:04.0
Services: IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7606
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-09 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Release of Collection 2 of Copernicus Sentinel-3 NRT Fire Radiative Power, introducing daytime coverage in NRT Copernicus fires observation. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/release-collection-2-s3-nrt-fire-radiative-power
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-11-25 11:58:58.0
Services: SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3B

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7623
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-09 13:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-09 14:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: Data access services - third drop-in session of a series of monthly open, online short sessions on our data access services and their usage via GUIs and APIs. The focus of this session will be 'Onboarding to the new EUMETView'. For more details and registration, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/data-access-services-third-drop-session
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-02 14:00:30.0
Services:

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7628
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-11 03:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-11 03:10:00.0
Satellites: GOES-17
Subject: instrument-calibration
Detail: A GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 27 November 2021. Between 03:00 and 03:05 UTC GOES-17 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G17_s20213450300[SSS]_e20213450305[SSS]_c202134503[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 03:10 UTC.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-03 13:38:31.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7627
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-11 10:50:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-11 11:00:00.0
Satellites: GOES-16
Subject: instrument-calibration
Detail: A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 11 December 2021. Between 10:50 and 10:55 UTC GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20213451050[SSS]_e20213451055[SSS]_c202134510[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 11:00 UTC.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-03 13:39:46.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7629
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-11 16:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-11 16:10:00.0
Satellites: GOES-16
Subject: instrument-calibration
Detail: A GOES-16 ABI routine desert monitoring calibration scan is planned on 11 December 2021 from 16:00 UTC o 16:05 UTC. Between 16:05 UTC and 16:10 UTC GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20213451605[SSS]_e20213451610[SSS]_c202134516[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 16:10 UTC
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-03 13:11:37.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7630
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-11 20:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-11 20:10:00.0
Satellites: GOES-17
Subject: instrument-calibration
Detail: A GOES-17 ABI routine desert monitoring calibration scan is planned on 11 December 2021 from 20:00 UTC to 20:05 UTC. Between 20:05 UTC and 20:10 UTC GOES-17 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G17_s20213452005[SSS]_e20213452010[SSS]_c202126120[mmssSSS]-129601_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 20:10 UTC
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-03 13:22:34.0
Services: GOES Products

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7622
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-14 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-14 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Release of a new Sentinel-3 Altimetry Processing Baseline (PB): PB 2.79-MARINE. This new PB introduces several changes and improvements to the Sentinel-3 Altimetry products in terms of scientific content for both L1 and L2 products. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/new-sentinel-3-altimetry-processing-baseline
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-12-02 13:52:00.0
Services: MWR Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B
MWR Level 1 Products - S3B

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 6269
Rev: 4
Start Time: 2021-12-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-15 09:00:00.0
Subject: service-change
Detail: Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-1 Full Resolution Near Real Time data will be removed from EUMETCast Satellite on 29 July 2021. Alternative services to access these data are available. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: URL updated, following the launch of the new EUMETSAT website on 16 November 2020. [Rev. 3]: The removal of Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-1 Full Resolution Near Real Time data from EUMETCast Satellite, initially planned for 29 July 2021, is being deferred to a later date (likely to be during the last quarter of 2021). This is to allow more time for users to transition to alternative access services. [Rev. 4]: The removal of OLCI Level-1 Full Resolution Near Real Time data from EUMETCast Satellite will take place on 15 December 2021. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/S3-olci-l1-nrt-on-eumetcast-satellite-removed
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-09-23 09:13:48.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B

Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 7587
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2021-12-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2021-12-15 09:00:00.0
Satellites: Metop-C
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-11-17 15:06:25.0
Services: AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C
SEM L0 - Metop-C
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C
MHS Level 1 - Metop-C
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C
IASI Level 1 - Metop-C
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-C
A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C
AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-C
GRAS AHRPT Metop-C
HIRS AHRPT Metop-C
IASI AHRPT Metop-C
MHS AHRPT Metop-C
SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 6944
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2022-01-17 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-01-17 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: Change to DCP messages disseminated on EUMETCast. They will no longer be wrapped into LRIT files and, instead, will be disseminated as individual files. This will also involve a filename change and a change of EUMETCast channels. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2] Date changed from 9 November 2021 to 17 January 2022. To facilitate user transition, there will be a period of parallel dissemination from 17 January to 17 March 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/change-dcp-messages-disseminated-eumetcast
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-10-18 14:43:13.0
Services: Meteosat 0° DCP
Meteosat IODC DCP

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7533
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2022-02-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-03-22 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: The EUMETCast Europe Basic Service channels will be reorganised in the first quarter of 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-basic-service-channels-reorganisation
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-11-03 15:27:49.0
Services: EUMETCast-Europe

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7033
Rev: 3
Start Time: 2022-03-31 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-03-31 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in November 2021 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: The update is being deferred to Q1 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev. 3]: A live test data stream has been put in place. For details on how to access the data and how to use them, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-11-25 14:35:01.0
Services: IASI Level 1 - Metop-A
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7329
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2022-07-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-07-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: Transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service planned for Q3 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-europe-service-transponder-migration
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-09-08 16:58:29.0
Services: EUMETCast-Europe

Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 7414
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2022-10-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2022-10-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: File formats of Meteosat meteorological products distributed on EUMETCast are planned to be updated in October 2022. At the same time, there will be a small change in the timestamp of the AMV products distributed on the GTS. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/change-file-formats-meteosat-meteorological-products
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2021-09-30 13:23:12.0
Services: 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

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