Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-18 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scan scheduled for Aug 20 - Aug 23, 2024

Date/Time Issued: Aug 13, 2024, 1902Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: Aug 20, 2024, 17:35 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: Aug 23, 2024, 00:29 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 Aug 20 - Aug 23, 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:

08/20/2024 (DOY 233) 17:35:28 UTC & 18:22:08 UTC
08/22/2024 (DOY 235) 19:00:09 UTC & 20:17:42 UTC

GOES-18:

08/20/2024 (DOY 233) 21:44:34 UTC & 22:44:48 UTC
08/22/2024 (DOY 235) 23:19:47 UTC & 08/23/2024 (DOY 236) 00:29:33 UTC

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