Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-18 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scan scheduled for Mar 23 - Mar 26, 2024

Date/Time Issued: March 19, 2024, 1337Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 and GOES-18 ABI MESO-2 outages

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 23, 2024, 15:36 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: March 26, 2024, 22:26 UTC

Length of Outage: Approximately 2 minutes for each event. See the schedule below.

Details/Specifics of Change:

Several, very short, GOES-16 and GOES-18 routine calibration scans for lunar trending will be performed on Mar 23 - Mar 26, 2024, resulting in an outage of ABI MESO-2 products for about 2 minutes for each event. ABI MESO-1 will still be available during this time. The schedules are below.

Impacts:

GOES-16:

03/23/2024 (DOY 083) 15:36:53 UTC & 16:35:18 UTC
03/24/2024 (DOY 084) 16:02:31 UTC & 17:27:19 UTC

GOES-18:

03/25/2024 (DOY 085) 20:57:46 UTC & 22:17:08 UTC
03/26/2024 (DOY 086) 22:06:44 UTC & 22:26:44 UTC

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