Correction: Subject line Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver Schedule for September 14, 2022

Topic:  Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver

Date/Time Message Issued:  Sep 14, 2022 0156Z

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: Sept 14, 2022 0736Z

Date/Time  Expected End:  Sept 14, 2022 1415Z

Length of Outage:   6.5 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:       

A Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Sep 14, 2022 (JDAY 257) with preparations starting at 07:36 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 15:43:56 UTC and 15:45:16 UTC respectively.

Instrument         Deactivation Time          Normal Operation

AMSU-A1           07:36:34            13:27:51

AMSU-A2           07:37:14            13:29:21

HIRS      07:38:14            13:15:37

IASI       07:36:29            13:51:36

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

Web Site(s) for Applicable Information: 

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