Topic: GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan

Date/Time Issued: April 10, 2023 1459Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-18 ABI product outage

Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 11, 2023 1830Z

Date/Time of Expected End: April 11, 2023 1900Z

 

Date/Time of Expected End: April 11, 2023 2000Z

 

Date/Time of Expected End: April 11, 2023 2030Z

Length of Outage:  30 minutes of product outage, about 1 hour of scanning, followed by another 30 minute product outage

Details/Specifics of Change:

A GOES-18 ABI Encoder and FTE Calibration will be performed on April 11, 2023, at 18:30Z resulting in two ABI product outages. Products may be degraded between outages. 

On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 the following schedule will be employed to support GOES-18 ABI Encoder and FTE Calibrations:

 

1830 UTC – 1900Z: GOES 18 ABI Outage

1900 UTC - Approximately 2000 UTC: GOES-18 Routine ABI Operations Resume with potentially degraded products 

Approximately 2000Z - Approximately 2030 UTC: GOES-18 ABI outage

Approximately 2030Z: GOES-18 Routine ABI Operations Resume

 

 

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