Topic: Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver
Date/Time (UTC) Issued: April 09, 2024 1944Z
Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI,
MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available. The
AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-C will be temporarily degraded
Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation: April 10, 2024 (JDAY 101) 08:52 UTC
Date/Time (UTC) Expected End: April 10, 2024 (JDAY 101) 15:30 UTC
Length of Outage: ~ 6.5 hours
Details/Specifics of Change: A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Apr 10, 2024 (JDAY 101) with preparations
starting at 08:52 UTC. For this maneuver some instruments will not be producing data. The data outage times are listed below.
Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed. The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument will be
performed at 17:00:29 and 17:01:49 UTC respectively.
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☐ Metop-C ☒
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