Topic: Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver
Date/Time Issued: Oct 5, 2022 0045UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: 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-C will be temporarily degraded

Date/Time Initial Impact: Oct 5, 2022 07:54 UTC (JDAY 278)
Date/Time of Expected End: Oct 5, 2022 14:09 UTC (JDAY 278)

Length of Event: 5 hours 15 mins
Details/Specifics of Change: A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Oct 5, 2022 (JDAY 272) with preparations starting at 07:30 UTC.

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 16:01:53 UTC and 16:03:13 UTC respectively.
Instrument Deactivation Time Normal Operation
AMSU-A1 07:54:27 13:45:32
AMSU-A2 07:55:07 13:47:02
HIRS N/A N/A
IASI 07:54:11 14:09:17
MHS 07:56:17 13:38:17
SEM 07:55:47 13:43:53
GOME 11:12:18 13:26:12
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☐ Metop-C ☒
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information Metop satellites.
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