Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 22

Date/Time Issued: May 25, 2022 1414Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 25, 2022 1406Z (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:

Message number: | 9120
Message creation: | Wed May 25 14:06:06 UTC 2022

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 7582
Rev: | 6
Start Time: | 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-01 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Event End date updated
Revision History: | [Original] Calibrations to support transponder test.. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. [Rev. 2] Event End date updated. [Rev. 3] Event End date updated. [Rev.4] Event End date updated. [Rev.5] Event End date updated
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-10 14:35:29.0
Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7982
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-03-20 15:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-09-21 15:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | Details updated.
Revision History: | [Original] From 20/03/2022, the daily Meteosat-8 Upper HRV Window shift time will change from 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC to better optimise the illumination for the Spring/Summer season. The 15:00 UTC shift time will remain in place until 21 September 2022 included. Please note that IODC service will be taken over by Met-9 as of 01 June 2022 (see UNS announcement 7781).
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-03-11 15:09:58.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8230
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-04-25 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-07-31 23:59:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | Jupyter Notebook Competition: EUMETSAT, in partnership with ECMWF, EEA and Mercator Ocean International, is running a new Jupyter Notebook Competition. The aim of the competition is to try to build a community-driven resource of notebooks on the Copernicus WEkEO online platform that will empower others to start their own journeys with Earth observation data. The competition runs until 31 July 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/science-blog/new-jupyter-notebook-competition
Issue Time: | 2022-05-19 13:43:36.0
Services: |

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7948
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-18 10:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-03 14:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | Test activation of the backup satellite, HOTBIRD 13C, for the EUMETCast Europe service. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-europe-backup-satellite-test-activation-2022
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-03-03 09:49:14.0
Services: | EUMETCast-Europe

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8256
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-30 00:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-30 02:45:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | lunar-eclipse
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | Moon Eclipse. 00:30 to 02:45 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:07:56.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8257
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-30 00:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-30 02:45:00.0
Satellites: | MET-9
Subject: | lunar-eclipse
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | Moon Eclipse. 00:30 to 02:45 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete. Please note that Met-9 will take over IODC service as of 01 June 2022.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:19:42.0
Services: | IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8263
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-30 15:22:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-30 15:28:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Gain Compression
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:27:14.0
Services: | ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-ASCAT ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8258
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-30 18:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-30 20:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-8
Subject: | lunar-eclipse
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | Moon Eclipse. 18:30 to 20:30 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:16:32.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8259
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-30 18:30:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-30 20:30:00.0
Satellites: | MET-9
Subject: | lunar-eclipse
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Moon eclipse. 18:30 to 20:30 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete. Please note that Met-9 will take over IODC service as of 01 June 2022.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:14:13.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8207
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 12:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | Thermal Regulation update on the spacecraft. There is a risk of image degradation in the maintenance period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-16 09:35:35.0
Services: | 0° SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8262
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 08:03:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 08:10:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:26:13.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8260
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 08:51:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 08:58:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | MEPED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM MEPED in flight calibration.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:22:46.0
Services: | SEM AHRPT Metop-B SEM L0 - Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8261
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 08:51:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 10:34:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | TED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:25:07.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8068
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Date changed by NOAA from 4 May to 31 May 2022.
Revision History: | [Original] Update to Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products, involving a filename change. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/update-snpp-and-noaa-20-viirs-sst-products
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-04 08:28:53.0
Services: | VIIRS EDR - Suomi-NPP VIIRS EDR - JPSS

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8144
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Date changed by NOAA from 4 May to 31 May 2022.
Revision History: | [Original] Update to Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 OMPS Ozone Nadir Profile products, involving a filename change. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/snpp-noaa-20-omps-np-products-update
Issue Time: | 2022-05-04 08:30:15.0
Services: |

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8201
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Release of new Sentinel-6 Altimetry Processing Baseline, F06. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-sentinel-6-altimetry-processing-baseline
Issue Time: | 2022-05-13 08:26:32.0
Services: | NRT P4 HR L2P (SLA) - S6A NRT Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A STC Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A STC Altimetry HR L1A Products - S6A STC Altimetry HR L1B Products - S6A NTC Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A NTC Altimetry HR L1A Products - S6A NTC Altimetry HR L1B Products - S6A STC P4 HR L2P (SLA) - S6A STC P4 HR L3 (SLA) - S6A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8255
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-31 15:28:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-31 15:29:00.0
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.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 08:03:42.0
Services: | IODC SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8248
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-01 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-01 10:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | service-degraded
Detail: | Planned maintenance activity on EUMETView. The service may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 09:02:25.0
Services: | EUMETView

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8173
Rev: | 3
Start Time: | 2022-06-01 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-01 16:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | service-degraded
Detail: | Maintenance postponed by one week. Start time and End time updated.
Revision History: | [Original] Data Centre servers maintenance. During this time, the Data Centre Ordering Client might not be available and the Data Centre catalogue updates and processing of S3 orders might be delayed. Users are invited to visit the Data Store (data.eumetsat.int) to download the latest data. [Rev.1] Maintenance postponed by one week. Start and Event End time updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 09:28:38.0
Services: | EUMETSAT Data Centre

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8249
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-01 10:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | service-degraded
Detail: | Planned maintenance activity on Data Store and Data Tailor. Services may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 09:40:00.0
Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8179
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-06-01 12:19:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-01 12:19:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | Manoeuvre Execution time updated. Burn time: 12:19:53 UTC. Duration: 8.049 seconds. Outages per instrument: SEM from 08:03 to 13:51 UTC and GOME from 11:12 to 12:53 UTC.
Revision History: | [Original] Routine in-plane manoeuvre. Reduced data quality should be expected for data sensed during this period. The exact burn time will be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 12:40:59.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-C AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-C MHS Level 1 - Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-C GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-C A-DCS AHRPT Metop-C AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-C AVHRR AHRPT Metop-C ASCAT AHRPT Metop-C GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-C GRAS AHRPT Metop-C IASI AHRPT Metop-C MHS AHRPT Metop-C HIRS AHRPT Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8250
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-05 09:04:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-05 09:06:00.0
Satellites: | Sentinel-3A
Subsystem: | SRAL
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: |
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 13:32:54.0
Services: | SRAL Level 1 Products - S3A SRAL Level 2 Marine Products - S3A

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8208
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-07 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-07 12:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-degradation
Detail: | Thermal Regulation update on the spacecraft. There is a risk of image degradation in the maintenance period.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-16 09:37:58.0
Services: | 0° SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8252
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-08 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-08 09:00:00.0
Subject: | new-product
Detail: | Copernicus Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 2 atmospheric products, Fire Radiative Power and Aerosol Optical Depth, to be available on EUMETCast Africa. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-3-atmospheric-products-eumetcast-africa-soon
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 14:13:56.0
Services: | SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Atmospheric Products - S3B

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8253
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-08 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-08 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Sentinel-3 Synergie Level 2 product SY_2_SYN will stop being generated and will be replaced by the new Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) product for Africa. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-3-atmospheric-products-eumetcast-africa-soon
Issue Time: | 2022-05-25 09:26:31.0
Services: |

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8251
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-09 09:00:00.0
Subject: | new-product
Detail: | New H SAF precipitation products to be available on EUMETCast. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-h-saf-precipitation-products-available-soon
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 14:09:49.0
Services: | H-SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8254
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-09 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Release of a new version, V5.1, of the GRAS Product Processing Facility (PPF). This new PPF version introduces an updated version of an internally used library and a minor technical fix to the low level data processing. In addition, GPS satellite metadata have been updated. None of these updates affect the data quality or the level 1b product characteristics.
Revision History: |
Issue Time: | 2022-05-24 14:25:16.0
Services: | GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8060
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-06-30 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-30 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | Meteosat SEVIRI Clear Sky Radiances (CSR) product to be discontinued. For more details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-csr-product-be-discontinued
Issue Time: | 2022-04-06 13:07:32.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7033
Rev: | 5
Start Time: | 2022-08-15 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-08-15 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | New date: Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated on 15 August 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: | [Rev.1] Principal Component (PC) compressed IASI L1C data will be updated in November 2021 (exact date to be announced in due course). For full details, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 2]: The update is being deferred to Q1 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course. [Rev. 3]: A live test data stream has been put in place. For details on how to access the data and how to use them, see the URL provided below. [Rev. 4]: The update is being deferred to Q4 2022, with exact date to be announced in due course.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-18 14:44:54.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-C

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7414
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-10-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | File formats of Meteosat meteorological products distributed on EUMETCast are planned to be updated in October 2022. At the same time, there will be a small change in the timestamp of the AMV products distributed on the GTS. For full details and test data, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/change-file-formats-meteosat-meteorological-products
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2021-09-30 13:23:12.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products IODC Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 7329
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2022-12-23 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-12-23 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | The transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service will include a parallel downlink period where the old and new transponders will be used from 24 November to 23 December 2022. The service on the old transponder will stop on 23 December 2022.
Revision History: | [Rev.1] Transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service planned for Q3 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-europe-service-transponder-migration
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-05-12 11:44:14.0
Services: | EUMETCast-Europe

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