Topic: GOES-18 ABI Solar Calibration Scan


Date/Time Issued: Feb 12, 2024 1740Z


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


Date/Time of Initial Impact: Feb 19, 2024, 1520Z


Date/Time of Expected End:  Feb 19, 2024, 1530Z


Length of Outage/EventApproximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations


Details/Specifics of Change:

On Feb 19th, 2024, GOES-18 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1520-1530 UTC. A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1523-1524 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1530 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1530 UTC.


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