Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 41
Date/Time Issued: October 1, 2020 1432Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 1, 2020 1421Z (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

Message number: | 7263
Message creation: | Thu Oct 01 14:21:29 UTC 2020

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5475
Rev: | 7
Start Time: | 2020-01-06 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-11-01 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Calibrations to support transponder test. Outages of products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2] End date updated. [Rev. 3] End date updated to 19th April 2020.[Rev. 4] End date updated. [Rev. 5] End date updated. [Rev. 6] End date updated. [Rev 7] End date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-23 14:36:37.0
Services: | ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-A ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5596
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-01-29 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2021-12-31 23:59:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | HRPT
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | HRPT switching zone drift. Risk of interruption. The Metop-A satellite is currently in drifting orbit. As a consequence the geographical zones, defined to control the switching times of the satellite HRPT system, are drifting westwards at a rate of 0.02 degree per day. Users near the borders of switching zones might experience small changes in their acquisition times of the HRPT signal. On-board timings will be updated approximately every 8 months to compensate for the drift geolocation. A dedicated announcement will be issued in advance of each of these updates.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-02-03 10:12:03.0
Services: | A-DCS AHRPT Metop-A ASCAT AHRPT Metop-A AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-A AVHRR AHRPT Metop-A IASI AHRPT Metop-A HIRS AHRPT Metop-A GRAS AHRPT Metop-A MHS AHRPT Metop-A GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5988
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-06-12 09:45:00.0
End Time: | 2020-12-18 09:46:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3A
Subsystem: | SRAL
Subject: | instrument-special-operation
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | A series of trial SRAL transponder passes using an ESA/ESRIN refurbished ENVISAT Sigma Naught Transponder will be performed. As a consequence of the mode transitions required to perform this test, outages with a duration of approximately 37 seconds can be expected on the following days, from 09:45:03 to 09:45:40 UTC: 12/06/2020, 09/07/2020, 05/08/2020, 01/09/2020, 28/09/2020, 25/10/2020, 21/11/2020 and 18/12/2020. Similar trial passes for Sentinel-3B are planned to be performed. A separate UNS message will be issued for this.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-06-15 13:05:58.0
Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 5996
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-06-23 20:41:00.0
End Time: | 2020-12-29 20:42:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3B
Subsystem: | SRAL
Subject: | instrument-special-operation
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | A series of trial SRAL transponder passes using an ESA/ESRIN refurbished ENVISAT Sigma Naught Transponder will be performed. As a consequence of the mode transitions required to perform this test, outages with a duration of approximately 37 seconds can be expected on the following days, from 20:41:20 to 20:41:57 UTC: 23/06/2020, 20/07/2020, 16/08/2020, 12/09/2020, 09/10/2020, 05/11/2020, 02/12/2020 and 29/12/2020.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-06-17 13:05:40.0
Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6159
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-08-05 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-08-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | Tellicast client software release 2.14.6 is now available for Windows and Linux. For details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_5129085.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-08-05 14:18:56.0
Services: |

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6181
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-08-29 22:30:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-18 01:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-10
Subject: | eclipse-season
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 22:30 to 01:00 next day in the given time period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-08-19 12:47:40.0
Services: | RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6254
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-08-30 14:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-15 16:00:00.0
Satellites: | Himawari-8
Subject: | eclipse-season
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | 14:00 to 15:20 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.
Url: | https://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/en/oper/equinox/equinox_2020_autumn.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-10 14:02:11.0
Services: | Himawari Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6182
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-08-31 23:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-17 01:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | eclipse-season
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | There is a risk of degraded image quality every night from 23:00 to 01:30 next day in the given time period.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-08-19 12:50:46.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products 0° SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6259
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-09-15 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2021-05-15 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | NOAA-15,NOAA-19
Subsystem: | AVHRR
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) engineers will activate switching for NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR Channel 3A / 3B for the period of 15 September 2020 to 14 May 2021. Switching to Channel 3A will occur during this period over the predefined box encompassing the Alaska Region (box coordinates 50°N to 75°N and 173°E to 135°W). NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 AVHRR will switch between Channel 3B and Channel 3A to support snow and ice detection and monitoring activities over Alaska Region. For more details please refer to the URL link below.
Url: | https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2020/MSG258010404.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-15 10:11:37.0
Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - NOAA EARS-AVHRR

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6296
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-09-28 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-09-28 09:00:00.0
Subject: | new-service
Detail: | New Pilot Data Store and EUMETView next generation services are now available to all users. For full details, please see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_5207481.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-28 13:15:01.0
Services: | Web Service

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6272
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-03 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-16 00:00:00.0
Subject: | Sun-interference
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Sun interference may affect the EUMETCast broadcast satellites. Users might experience lower signal margin or outages on EUMETCast. The exact times and durations of the signal degradation or outages depend on the reception location.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-17 12:37:29.0
Services: | EUMETCast-Europe EUMETCast-Africa

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6302
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-05 02:29:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-05 12:50:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | IASI External Calibration (Moon Intrusion). Short interruptions can be expected.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 11:55:09.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A IASI AHRPT Metop-A EARS-IASI OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6301
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 04:50:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 08:50:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | External Calibration
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 11:47:00.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Sounding Products - Metop-A EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6307
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 06:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 18:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to EARS Svalbard UPS yearly maintenance there may be disruption to all Svalbard acquired EARS services during the indicated times
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:15:03.0
Services: | EARS-ATOVS EARS-ASCAT EARS-AVHRR EARS-IASI EARS-NWC

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6305
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 08:27:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 08:34:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:10:19.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6304
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 08:53:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:09:09.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6303
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 08:53:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 10:36:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | TED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:08:18.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-A SEM AHRPT Metop-A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6306
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 09:20:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 09:27:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:11:07.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6309
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 11:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-17 11:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-10
Subject: | Sun-colinearity
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Sun Co-linearity. Repeat cycles 11:00 to 11:25 affected
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:46:52.0
Services: | RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6310
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 11:45:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-16 12:15:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | Sun-colinearity
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Sun Co-linearity. Repeat cycles 11:45 and 12:00 affected
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:46:23.0
Services: | 0° SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6311
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-06 18:28:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-06 18:29:00.0
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: | 2020-09-30 12:45:48.0
Services: | IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6308
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-07 07:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-07 15:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to EARS Svalbard network maintenance there may be disruption to all Svalbard acquired EARS services during the indicated times
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:17:20.0
Services: | EARS-AVHRR EARS-ATOVS EARS-ASCAT EARS-IASI EARS-NWC

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6300
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-07 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-07 16:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A,Metop-B,Metop-C
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Maintenance activity to take place between the event start and event end times. An outage in production of up to one orbit for each spacecraft is expected.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 12:03:09.0
Services: | GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-A Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-A GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B Multi-sensor Products - Metop-C GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-C AC SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6299
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-07 09:17:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-07 09:55:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3B
Subject: | out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Reduced data quality for SRAL should be expected for data sensed during this period. Reduced data quality for SLSTR can be expected from approximately 09:07 to 11:41
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 10:25:44.0
Services: | SLSTR Level 1 Products - S3B SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3B SRAL Level 1 Products - S3B SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6252
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2020-10-07 11:56:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-07 12:06:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subject: | out-of-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Out-of-plane manoeuvre. Some instrument data will be unavailable or degraded during this period.The exact burn time and instrument affected outage will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period.Rev. 2] Burn time = 11:56:49 UTC. Burn duration = 600.962 seconds.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 11:45:39.0
Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Sounding products- Metop-C SEM L0 - Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C Multi-sensor Products - Metop-C EARS-ATOVS EARS-AVHRR EARS-IASI A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C IASI AHRPT Metop-C HIRS AHRPT Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C MHS AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6312
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-08 22:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-09 02:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Athens EARS data link maintenance. There may be disruption to all imager based services.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-30 13:01:40.0
Services: | EARS-AVHRR EARS-ATOVS EARS-ASCAT EARS-ATMS EARS-CrlS EARS-NWC EARS-VIIRS EARS-IASI EARS-VASS EARS-MERSI

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6285
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-12 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-16 17:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | New EUMETSAT Website testing: We are close to launching our new website and are giving some users a chance to test it prior to launch. If you are interested in taking part, please contact our User Service Helpdesk (ops@eumetsat.int) by 30 September 2020. See the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_5207530.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-23 11:24:13.0
Services: | Web Service

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6267
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-18 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | HRPT
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | HRPT switching zone update. Risk of interruption. An update of the Metop-A on-board HRPT switching zones timings will be performed to compensate for the zone drift in geolocation due to the spacecraft drifting orbit. This will result in a shift in HRPT switching zones by 6 degree eastward. HRPT users near the borders of switching zones may experience degradation in service availability for Metop-A HRPT.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-18 06:41:06.0
Services: |

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 6290
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-20 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-20 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-A
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | IASI EEPROM Patch. Exact time will be announced closer to the event.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-23 15:17:15.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-A OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6034
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2020-10-21 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-21 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | A sub-set of Meteosat SEVIRI Level 2 products are planned to be discontinued on 7 October 2020. The products are: Cloud Analysis, Cloud Analysis Image, Divergence, Normalised Difference Vegetation Index / Normalised Difference Vegetation Index Decadal and Tropospheric Humidity. Please see the URL provided below. [REV2] Date c hanged to 21/10/2020
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_5079174.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-29 08:23:39.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6292
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-26 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-26 09:00:00.0
Subject: | service-change
Detail: | From 26 October 2020, the AC SAF product ordering service through the EUMETSAT Data Centre will be discontinued. After that date, offline ordering of AC SAF products will only be possible via dedicated ordering services hosted by FMI and DLR. Links to these ordering services will be listed in the EUMETSAT Product Navigator (https://navigator.eumetsat.int) catalogue.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-24 10:11:33.0
Services: | AC SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6223
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2020-10-30 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2020-10-30 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | The Jason-3 altimeter products generated by EUMETSAT will be updated to the new GDR-F standard at the end of October 2020 (exact date to be communicated in due course). For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_5173173.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-02 14:05:42.0
Services: | Jason-3 OGDR

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 5159
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2021-01-14 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2021-01-14 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | A new BUFR encoding sequence will be introduced in June 2020 for all EUMETSAT’s wind products. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: Date changed to 7 October 2020. To facilitate user transition, AMV products encoded in the new BUFR sequence will be distributed on the GTS in parallel to the currently operational AMV products, from 15 July until 6 October 2020. For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 3]: Date changed to mid-January 2021. Exact date will be announced in due course. Periods of parallel dissemination on the GTS have also been updated. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_4593260.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-17 14:09:56.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-A AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B AVHRR Polar winds - Metop-C Multi-Metop Wind Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 6269
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2021-07-29 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2021-07-29 09:00:00.0
Subject: | service-change
Detail: | Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-1 Full Resolution Near Real Time data will be removed from EUMETCast Satellite on 29 July 2021. Alternative services to access these data are available. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_5184373.html
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2020-09-16 16:21:45.0
Services: | OLCI Level 1 Products - S3A OLCI Level 1 Products - S3B

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