Topic: NOAA-20 CERES data outage

Date/Time Issued: January 17, 2024 2128Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All NOAA-20 CERES products

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 18, 2024 16:13Z

Date/Time of expected end Time: January 19, 2023 17:48Z

Length of Outage: ~ 24 hours and 35 minutes

Details/Specifics of change: The CERES science team has requested OSPO engineering to command the NOAA-20 CERES instrument into a SAFE state. This will help gather telemetry data to investigate elevated noise levels and occasional spikes in the Shortwave Channel to better characterize the source of the noise. All CERES science data during this observation time will not be recoverable.

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