Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 29 Issue 3 (addition of announcement 4958)

Date/Time Issued: July 15, 2019 1529Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 15, 2019 1513Z (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End: See table in detail for on and off switch time

Length of Outage: N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 3867
Rev: | 10
Start Time: | 2018-06-04 19:02:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-21 23:59:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | ASCAT Extensive Maintenance. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey during the mentioned period.[Rev2]: Updated End time and date. [Rev3]: End date updated.[Rev4]: End date updated. [Rev5] End date updated. [Rev 6] : End date updated. [Rev 7] : End date updated. [Rev 8] : End date updated. [Rev 9] :End date updated. [Rev 10] :End date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:23:15.0
Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4872
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2019-06-24 13:32:00.0
Satellites: | Suomi NPP
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Planned maintenance but the exact date is still to be confirmed: NOAA will perform a switch of the SNPP CrIS electronics from the current side-1 to the redundant side-2, in order to recover from a CrIS midwave signal processor failure that occurred on side-1. All CrIS data will be unavailable for a two week period as instrument adjustments are being performed, followed by a 12-week Calibration/Validation effort. [Rev 2]: Direct broadcast added to affected services.[Rev 3]:Exact date for start of outage confirmed, updated the start time.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-06-24 09:03:52.0
Services: | EARS-CrlS NDB (NOAA Direct Broadcast) CrlS Level 1 - Suomi-NPP

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4920
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-06-27 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | There is an issue with the latest EUMETCast software package, affecting Linux operating systems when the Tellicast client software (version 2.14.5) is used in combination with the Safenet drivers. A new alpha version of Tellicast, with a fix of the issue, is available for download. See the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4451027.html
Issue Time: | 2019-06-27 11:18:18.0
Services: |

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4952
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-13 12:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-11-30 13:00:00.0
Satellites: | GOES17
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | GOES-17 ABI Loop Heat Pipe anomaly will impact bands 8 through 16 in the given time period every day around 12:40 UTC. There will be a gradual degradation in image quality over one or several images with some complete outages. This process will cycle through varied degradation through November 30, 2019. The duration of the degradation and outage periods will vary by channel and by date.
Url: | https://www.goes-r.gov/users/GOES-17-ABI-Performance.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-12 12:09:09.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4943
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-16 07:30:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-18 15:30:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-delay
Detail: | Risk period is daily from 07:30 to 15:30 during the dates mentioned in the Event Start/End fields.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 11:43:23.0
Services: | OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A OLCI Level 2 Marine Products - S3B OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4944
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-16 08:01:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-16 08:08:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:08:43.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4949
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-16 08:42:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-16 08:49:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:20:11.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4945
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-16 09:16:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-16 09:23:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:09:46.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4946
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-16 09:16:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-16 10:59:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | TED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:10:40.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4948
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-16 18:58:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-16 18:59:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | East-West Station Keeping Manoeuvre. Users may experience degraded image quality and degraded meteorological product quality up to a few hours after the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:40:42.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4947
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-17 05:12:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-17 09:12:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | External Calibration
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-10 14:11:52.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B IASI AHRPT Metop-B OSI SAF - Products EARS-IASI

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4958
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-07-17 07:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-17 08:30:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Detail: | Software update. Data from Svalbard EARS station might be unavailable during this period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-15 14:55:41.0
Services: | EARS-ATOVS EARS-AVHRR EARS-ASCAT EARS-IASI EARS-CrlS EARS-ATMS EARS-VIIRS EARS-NWC EARS-VASS

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 4759
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2019-07-23 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-07-25 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | New algorithm for the Meteosat Active Fire Monitoring (FIR) product to be rolled-out as part of MSG MPEF (Meteosat Product Extraction Facility) Release 2.8, towards end of June 2019 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details and sample data of the new FIR product, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Date changed to 23-25 July 2019.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4372427.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-05-29 09:04:06.0
Services: | 0M-0 Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 4950
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2019-08-10 07:00:00.0
End Time: | 2019-08-10 15:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | IASI TOP upload (on-board processing update). Users should expect an instrument outage of around 50 minute at some point during this period. This will update the reduced spectra. The exact time will be announced closer to the event.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2019-07-11 13:35:26.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-B OSI SAF - Products

Name: | EUMETSAT
Address: | Eumetsat-Allee 1 D-64295 Darmstadt Germany
Telephone: | +49 6151 807 3660/3770
Fax: | +49 6151 807 3790
E-mail: | ops@eumetsat.int
Internet: | www.eumetsat.int

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