Topic: Metop-B In Plane Maneuver
Date/Time (UTC) Message Issued: March 22, 2022 0205Z
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 (UTC) Initial Implementation:
Mar
23, 2022 (JDAY 082) 07:58 UTC
Date/Time (UTC) Expected End: Mar 23, 2022 (JDAY 082) 14:37 UTC
Length of Outage: ~ 6.5 hours
Details/Specifics of Change: A MetOp-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Mar 23,
2022 (JDAY 082) with preparations starting at 07:58 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 16:05:25 UTC and 16:06:45 UTC
respectively.
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Instrument
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Deactivation
Time
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Normal
Operation
|
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AMSU-A1
|
07:58:01
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13:47:50
|
|
AMSU-A2
|
07:58:41
|
13:49:20
|
|
HIRS
|
07:59:41
|
13:36:50
|
|
IASI
|
07:57:56
|
13:51:50
|
|
MHS
|
07:59:51
|
13:41:50
|
|
SEM
|
07:59:21
|
13:46:50
|
|
GOME
|
11:13:35
|
14:37:20
|
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15
☐
NOAA-16 ☐
NOAA-17 ☐
NOAA-18 ☐
NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐
Metop-B ☒
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