Topic: Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver
Date/Time Issued: October 29, 2018 2225Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available.The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-B will be temporarily degraded
Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 31, 2018 0830Z
Date/Time of Expected End: October 31, 2018 1515Z
Length of Outage: 6 hours, 45 minutes
Details/Specifics of Change:

A Metop-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Oct 31, 2018 (JDAY 304) with preparations starting at 0830Z.

For this maneuver some instruments will not be producing data. The data outage times are listed below. Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed.

The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument will be performed at 1638Z and 1639Z respectively.

Instrument | Deactivation Time | Normal Operation
AMSU-A1 | 0830 | 1419
AMSU-A2 | 0831 | 1421
HIRS | 0832 | 1408
IASI | 0830 | 1423
MHS | 0832 | 1413
SEM | 0831 | 1418
GOME | 1151 | 1515

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