Topic: Metop-B: Out-of-Plane Maneuver burn

Date/Time Issued: September 22, 2020 2010Z

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

Date/Time Initial Implementation: Sept 23, 2020 (JDAY 267) 0754Z

Date/Time Expected End: Sept 23, 2020 (JDAY 267) 1434Z

Length of Outage: ~ 6.5 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:

A MetOp-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Sept 23, 2020 (JDAY 267) with preparations starting at 0754Z

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.

The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument will be performed at 1601Z and 1603Z respectively.

Instrument | Deactivation Time | Normal Operation
AMSU-A1 | 07:54 | 13:44
AMSU-A2 | 07:55 | 13:48
HIRS | 07:56 | 13:33
IASI | 07:54 | 13:48
MHS | 07:56 | 13:38
SEM | 07:55 | 13:43
GOME | 11:11 | 14:34

Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☒

Web Site(s) for Applicable Information:

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