Topic: Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver

Date/Time Message Issued: December 04, 2019 0004Z

Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GRAS, IASI, MHS, GOME-2, and 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-C will be temporarily degraded.

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Date/Time Initial Implementation: December 04, 2019 (JDAY 338) 0841Z

Date/Time Expected End: December 04, 2019 (JDAY 338) 1531Z

Length of Outage: ~ 7 hours

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A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed on December 04, 2019 (JDAY 338) with preparations starting at 0841Z.

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.
Instrument | Deactivation Time | Normal Operation
AMSU-A1 | 0843 | 1433
AMSU-A2 | 0841 | 1434
IASI | 0843 | 1437
MHS | 0845 | 1427
SEM | 0845 | 1432
GOME | 1208 | 1531
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 M-bM-^XM-^P NOAA-16 M-bM-^XM-^P NOAA-17 M-bM-^XM-^P NOAA-18 M-bM-^XM-^P NOAA-19 M-bM-^XM-^P Metop-A M-bM-^XM-^P Metop-B M-bM-^XM-^P Metop-C M-bM-^XM-^R
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