Topic: Metop-C In Plane Maneuver

Date/Time (UTC) Message Issued: July 9, 2019 2222Z

Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, 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

Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation: July 10, 2019 (J/DAY 191) ~0746 UTC

Date/Time (UTC) Expected End: July 10, 2019 (J/DAY 191) ~1333 UTC

Length of Outage: ~ 6 hours

Details/Specifics of Change: M-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^B

A Metop-C In-Plane Maneuver will be performed July 10, 2019.

The SEM instrument will be placed into Maneuver Mode at 0746 on July 10, 2019 and returned back to its Normal Operating Mode at 1333 that same day.

The GOME instrument timeline ends at 1053 UTC and mirror parked before the burn on July 10, 2019. The GOME timeline is reactivated at 1236 UTC that same day.

Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed.

Contact Information for Further Information:

ESPC Help Deskat ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at301-817-3880

Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 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

Web Site(s) for Applicable Information:

See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages.
See http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Satellites/CurrentSatellites/Metop/index.html for more information Metop satellites

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