Topic: NOAA-15 Transition to Parsons

Date/Time Issued: October 12, 2023 1545Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: NOAA-15 Products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 10, 2023 1609Z

Date/Time of Expected End: TBD

Length of Event: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change: From the POES Extended Life notice Update #16: On
October 10, 2023 at 16:09 UTC during rev 32172 the NOAA-15 satellite will be fully
transitioned to Parsons (Command and Control) C2 Commercial Ground Services. This
first transition of a POES satellite is an ongoing effort to extend the utility of the legacy
POES satellite constellation by extending life through use of a commercial system
called Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) approach. The data and products from
NOAA-15 will not be distributed while data quality evaluations are ongoing - NOAA-
15/18 data release is expected no earlier than the mid October 2023. Direct readout
data from NOAA-15 will continue to be made available to those users of that service.
Products derived from NOAA-15 (primarily Polar Winds) will be unavailable until data
validation is complete.

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