Topic: NOAA 20 VIIRS Lunar Calibration Roll Maneuver Scheduled for December 18, 2018
Date/Time Issued: December 17, 2018 20:25Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: All NOAA 20 Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 18, 2018 17:31:01Z
Date/Time of Expected End: December 18, 2018 18:33:01Z
Length of Outage: See Details.
Details/Specifics of change: On December 18, 2018, NOAA 20 will perform a spacecraft attitude maneuver for the VIIRS Lunar Calibration, with a roll of -7.868 degrees centered at 17:56:01Z. Science data may be impacted while the spacecraft is pointing off-nadir during the attitude maneuver and the CERES instrument will not provide nominal science data as it will placed in a contamination safe mode. The timeline of events for this maneuver are provided below.
The following observatory systems will be affected on 2018 December 18:
17:31:01 Z M-bM-^@M-^S 18:33:01 Z M-BCERES will be in Contam-Safe, science data will not be available
17:46:01 Z M-bM-^@M-^S 18:08:01 Z M-BHRD will be off, data for direct broadcast users will be unavailable
17:50:29 Z M-bM-^@M-^S 18:03:33 Z M-BVIIRS encoder offset and gain will be set for Moon observation
17:51:01 Z M-bM-^@M-^S 18:03:01 Z M-BNOAA-20 will be pointing off-nadir, collected data may be impacted and not disseminated

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