Topic: GOES-18 ABI Solar Calibration Scan

Date/Time Issued: October 21, 20241637Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 28, 2024, 1450 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:  October 28, 2024, 1500 UTC

Length of Outage: Approximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations

Details/Specifics of Change: On October 21st, 2024, GOES-18 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1450-1500 UTC. A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1451-1452 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1500 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1500 UTC.

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