Topic: GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan scheduled for December 11, 2018

Date/Time Issued: December 10, 2018 1930 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-17 ABI product outage

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 11, 2018 0300 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: December 11, 2018 0315 UTC

Length of Outage: Approximately 10 minutes at the beginning of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations

Details/Specifics of Change:

On December 11, 2018, ABI Flex Mode (mode 3) will be replaced with 15 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 0300-0315 UTC. A GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 0300-0310 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI Flex Mode (mode 3) will resume at 0315 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 0315 UTC.

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