Topic: Planned Maintenance Impacting ESPC Legacy Production Systems

Date/Time Issued: March 04, 2026 2015Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: A wide range of products will be impacted. Please see the list in the details section below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact:   March 05, 2026 1500Z

Date/Time of Expected End:   March 5, 2026 1700Z

Length of Outage: 120 minutes. No data will be lost, just delayed.

Details/Specifics: ESPC Legacy production systems will be upgraded and rebooted as part of routine system maintenance. The outage should not result in any products being incomplete or lost, but data delivery will be delayed. Shown below is a detailed listing of impacts to products.

PRODUCTS UNAVAILABLE DURING MAINTENANCE
-- SSMIS TDRs, SDRs, RDRs
-- MetOp Level 1B, 1B*, Granules:
-- AMSU-A
-- AVHRR FRAC / GAC
-- DCS
-- HIRS
-- HRPT
-- MHS
-- SEM

PRODUCTS DEGRADED or UNAVAILABLE DURING MAINTENANCE
-- Coastwatch AVHRR
-- SST & Aerosols

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