Topic: S-NPP CERES FSW Patch Upload planned for Tuesday, 08/28/2018
Date/Time Issued: August 27, 2018 1725Z
Products or Data Impacted: All CERES Science Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 28, 2018 15:41:02Z
Date/Time of Expected End: August 28, 2018 17:36:02Z
Length of Outage: 2 orbits
Details/Specifics of Change:
On August 28, 2018, S-NPP CERES FM5 will be commanded into Diagnostic and Standby Mode to permit the upload of new FSW PROM Dump2 that Langley Research Center (LaRC) requested. This FSW patch that contains a modified instrument sequence for slot thirteen which was previously unused.
This new FSW will help LaRC verify the health of the onboard instrument PROM chips to ensure they haven't been damaged by space weather. This will also help to set the PROMs to the default configuration in case of an unexpected instrument reset. CERES will produce the Diagnostic APID while in Diagnostic and Standby Modes, including during the Memory Dump.
SNPP Svalbard 35416 15:41:02Z - 15:53:46Z CERES will be commanded to Diagnostic Mode, FSW memory loaded, commanded to Stanby, and commanded to perform a RAM Dump that will continue to perform past LOS time.
SNPP Svalbard 35417 17:24:51Z - 17:36:02Z CERES commanded to Crosstrack mode and restored to nominal operations.

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