Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued: March 20, 2018 1405Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 20, 2018 13:20:00 (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End: See table in detail for on and off switch time

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change: Message number:
Message number: 4635
Message creation: Tue Mar 20 13:20:00Z 2018
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3574
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-02-11 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-04-14 00:00:00.0
Satellites: FY-2E
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: FY-2E image data at 17:30 UTC and 18:30 UTC may be unavailable or incomplete.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-02-15 13:03:43.0
Services: FY-2 Products
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3575
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-02-15 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-04-14 00:00:00.0
Satellites: FY-2G
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: FY2G image data at 16:00 UTC, 17:00 UTC, 17:30 UTC and 18:00 UTC may be unavailable or incomplete.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-02-15 13:07:11.0
Services: FY-2 Products
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3576
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-02-22 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-04-16 10:00:00.0
Satellites: GOES15
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: 09:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-02-15 13:33:47.0
Services: GOES Products
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 3634
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-13 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-20 09:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-9, MET-10
Subject: general-announcement
Detail: Parallel dissemination of Meteosat-9/Meteosat-10 RSS data, with Meteosat-9 as prime RSS spacecraft. Meteosat-10 RSS data will be distributed on EUMETSAT Data Channel 15 (PID: 500, Multicast address: 224.223.222.3) and will have "_PAR" (for "parallel") included in their filenames, e.g. H-000-MSG3__-MSG3_RSS_PAR-HRV______-000016___-201712211220-C_.Users wishing to receive the parallel Meteosat-10 RSS data stream should register with the EUMETSAT User Helpdesk (ops@eumetsat.int). For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/TechnicalBulletins/Meteosat/index.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-01 14:22:40.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 3672
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-15 09:00:00.0
Subject: new-service
Detail: New Sentinel-3 OLCI orbit prediction files available on FTP site. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_3853462.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-15 14:06:26.0
Services:
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3671
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-16 20:30:00.0
End Time: 2018-04-02 23:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-8
Subject: eclipse-season
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 20:30 to 23:00 in the given time period
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 15:55:33.0
Services: IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3677
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-19 09:04:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-19 09:06:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subsystem: OLCI
Subject: instrument-special-operation
Impact: data-unavailable
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-16 11:48:24.0
Services: OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3669
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-19 11:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-19 14:00:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: data-delayed
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 13:24:55.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3664
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-19 13:47:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-19 13:54:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: ASCAT
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Gain Compression
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 11:55:53.0
Services: ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A
EARS-ASCAT
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A
OSI SAF - Products
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3665
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-20 08:10:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-20 08:17:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 12:05:02.0
Services: SEM AHRPT Metop-A
SEM L0 - Metop-A
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3670
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-20 15:00:00.0
Subject: EUMETCast maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Interruptions of up to 30 minutes can be expected on all EUMETCast services for KU-Band, C-Band, Terrestrial service and the data transfer to/from RMDCN from 09:15 UTC to 10:15 UTC. A further risk of interruptions can be expected during the maintenance period. After the outage most of the backlog data will be disseminated.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 13:57:27.0
Services: EARS-AVHRR
EARS-ATOVS
EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-NWC
EARS-VASS
EUMETCast-Europe
EUMETCast-Africa
GTS RMDCN
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3663
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-20 16:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: McMurdo communications link maintenance.The enhanced timeliness achieved for Metop-B data through the Antarctic Data Acquisition (ADA) system might be interrupted.Therefore only nominal Arctic timeliness might be available during this period.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 11:48:30.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B
MHS Level 1 - Metop-B
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B
IASI Level 1 - Metop-B
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B
Multi-Metop Wind Products
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3676
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-21 17:00:00.0
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: risk-of-interruption
Detail: Due to Kangerlussuaq Ground Station software upgrade there is a risk of data been interrupted during the indicated dates.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-15 15:49:24.0
Services: EARS-ATOVS
EARS-AVHRR
EARS-ASCAT
EARS-IASI
EARS-ATMS
EARS-CrlS
EARS-VIIRS
EARS-NWC
EARS-VASS
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 3662
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-27 09:00:00.0
Satellites: MET-9, MET-10
Subject: general-announcement
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: Parallel dissemination of Meteosat-10/Meteosat-9 RSS data, with Meteosat-10 as prime RSS spacecraft. Meteosat-9 data will be distributed on EUMETSAT Data Channel 15 (PID: 500, Multicast address: 224.223.222.3) and will have "_PAR" (for "parallel") included in their filenames, e.g.: H-000-MSG2__-MSG2_RSS_PAR-HRV______-000016___-201803141220-C_. For full details, see the URL provided below. During the switch of Meteosat-10 to prime RSS spacecraft on 20/03/2018, the 09:00 UTC repeat cycle will be lost.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/TechnicalBulletins/Meteosat/index.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 10:56:43.0
Services: RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data
RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3666
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-20 09:09:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-20 09:16:00.0
Satellites: Metop-B
Subsystem: SEM
Component: MEPED
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 12:06:21.0
Services: SEM L0 - Metop-B
SEM AHRPT Metop-B
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3684
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-21 09:35:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-21 12:35:00.0
Satellites: Sentinel-3A
Subject: ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: data-delayed
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-19 14:06:35.0
Services: OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A
OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A
SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3647
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2018-03-21 12:29:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-21 12:29:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subject: in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: data-degraded
Detail: Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. [Rev 2]: Burn time = 12:29:26 UTC Burn duration =4.165 seconds.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-07 16:19:03.0
Services: AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-A
SEM L0 - Metop-A
AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-A
MHS Level 1 - Metop-A
HIRS Level 1 - Metop-A
ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A
GRAS Level 1 - Metop-A
IASI Level 1 - Metop-A
GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A
ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-A
IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A
ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A
AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A
Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-A
Multi-Metop Wind Products
AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A
A-DCS AHRPT Metop-A
ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A
AVHRR AHRPT Metop-A
GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A
GRAS AHRPT Metop-A
HIRS AHRPT Metop-A
IASI AHRPT Metop-A
MHS AHRPT Metop-A
SEM AHRPT Metop-A
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 3668
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-22 08:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-22 17:00:00.0
Satellites: Suomi NPP
Subject: new-service
Detail: Start of operational dissemination of ATMS and CrIS from St Denis.
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 12:25:26.0
Services: EARS-CrlS
EARS-ATMS
Type: Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: 3667
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-03-23 05:12:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-23 09:12:00.0
Satellites: Metop-A
Subsystem: IASI
Subject: instrument-calibration
Impact: data-unavailable
Detail: External Calibration
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-14 12:10:47.0
Services: IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A
IASI Level 1 - Metop-A
EARS-IASI
OSI SAF - Products
IASI AHRPT Metop-A
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 2307
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2018-03-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-03-27 09:00:00.0
Subject: service-change
Detail: Discontinuation of the LRIT Direct Dissemination service from the Meteosat 0° satellite. For more details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Date updated to 27/03/2018.
Url: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_3247528.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2016-10-20 08:09:10.0
Services: MSG Direct Dissemination
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 3649
Rev: 2
Start Time: 2018-04-04 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-04-04 09:00:00.0
Subject: product-change
Detail: Release of new Processing Baselines for Sentinel-3A SLSTR Level 1 and Level 2 data. For details on the changes, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Release postponed to 04/04/2018.
Url: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_3842638.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2018-03-08 12:18:48.0
Services: SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A
SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A
Type: Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: 3224
Rev: 1
Start Time: 2018-04-05 09:00:00.0
End Time: 2018-04-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: service-change
Detail: GRIB format of OSI SAF Global Sea Ice products to be discontinued. Users are encouraged to use the netCDF format of these products. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_3646431.html
Status: scheduled
Issue Time: 2017-09-28 08:17:44.0
Services: OSI SAF - Products
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