Topic: GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan
Date/Time Issued: March 12, 2024 1722Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-18 ABI product outage
Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 18, 2024, 1510 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: March 18, 2024, 1520 UTC
Length of Outage: Approximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations
Details/Specifics of Change:
On Mar 18th, 2024, GOES-18 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1510-1520 UTC. A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1517-1518 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1520 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1520 UTC.
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