Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule - Week 18

Date/Time Issued: April 28, 2022 1512Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 28, 2022 1456Z (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: | 9009
Message creation: | Thu Apr 28 14:56:11 UTC 2022

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 7582
Rev: | 5
Start Time: | 2021-12-07 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-06-05 00:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Event End date updated
Revision History: | [Rev.3] 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.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-13 09:55:11.0
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: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8041
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-04-08 06:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-11 12:00:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-17
Subject: | instrument-special-operation
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Please note that GOES-17 ASR and CSR products are expected to be missing during the cooling timeline periods.
Revision History: | [Original] NOAA will conduct a GOES-West ABI Cooling Timeline Operation from 08 April – 11 May 2022, every day from 06:00 to 12:00 UTC. During this phase, GOES-17 operations mode will change from MODE 6 to MODE 3, and this will affect the GOES-West ABI data distribution on EUMETCast. For full details, see the URL provided below. Users wishing to receive the MODE 3 data should contact our User Helpdesk at ops@eumetsat.int.
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/goes-17-abi-mode-3-cooling-timeline-implementation-2022
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-20 10:53:28.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8136
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-02 00:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-02 04:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | EARS Lannion Station PCCW Data Line Maintenance. There may be disruption to the listed EUMETSAT based services.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 14:11:09.0
Services: | EARS-ATOVS EARS-AVHRR EARS-MWRI EARS-ASCAT EARS-IASI EARS-ATMS EARS-CrlS EARS-VIIRS EARS-VASS EARS-NWC EARS-MERSI

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8107
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2022-05-02 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-02 11:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | service-degraded
Detail: | Event date updated.
Revision History: | [Original] Planned maintenance activity on Data Store and Data Tailor. Services may become temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period. [Rev.1] Event date updated.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-26 15:56:50.0
Services: | Data Store and Data Tailor Web Service

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8124
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-02 10:50:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-02 11:00:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-16
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Detail: | A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan is planned on 02 May 2022. Between 10:50 and 10:55 UTC GOES-16 ABI will operate in Continuous Full Disk Mode (mode 4) instead of 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6). Filenames will change to reflect the mode 4 operations, e.g.: OR_ABI-L1b-RadF-M4C01_G16_s20221221050[SSS]_e20221221055[SSS]_c202212210[mmssSSS]-118900_0.nc. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (Mode 6) will resume at 11:00 UTC.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-26 11:04:39.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8079
Rev: | 2
Start Time: | 2022-05-02 13:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-02 17:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-11
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Event Date/Time Updated.
Revision History: | [Original] Software update.The expected outage in the generation of meteorological products is 2 hours in the maintenance window. [Rev.1] Updated list of Impacted Services.
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-26 15:48:35.0
Services: | 0° Meteosat Meteorological Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8141
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-02 15:01:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-02 15:07:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | ASCAT
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Gain Compression
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 14:19:47.0
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: | 8128
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-03 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-03 12:00:00.0
Satellites: | MET-10
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: | 2022-04-27 13:26:09.0
Services: | RSS Meteosat Meteorological Products RSS SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Data

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8137
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-03 08:31:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-03 08:38:00.0
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: | 2022-04-27 14:15:07.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8142
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-03 09:13:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-06 10:34:00.0
Satellites: | NOAA-19
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | Due to maintenance, there will be no support for NOAA-19 from the EUMETSAT Svalbard Ground Station. Therefore NOAA-19 data for the listed orbits will not be acquired at Svalbard and will be unavailable on EUMETCast.
Revision History: |
Orbits: | 68209,68223,68237,68238,68251,68252,68294
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 14:28:16.0
Services: | AVHRR Level 1 - NOAA AMSU-A Level 1 - NOAA HIRS Level 1 - NOAA ATOVS Sounding products - NOAA MHS Level 1 - NOAA

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8138
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-03 09:24:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-03 09:31:00.0
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: | 2022-04-27 14:16:12.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8139
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-03 09:24:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-03 11:07:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | SEM
Component: | TED
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Detail: | SEM TED in flight calibration.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 14:17:49.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-C SEM AHRPT Metop-C

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8145
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-04 08:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-04 16:00:00.0
Subject: | ground-segment-maintenance
Impact: | data-delayed
Detail: | Data Centre archive maintenance. During this time, the processing of Sentinel-3 orders may be delayed. Users are invited to check out the Data Store (https://data.eumetsat.int/)
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-28 14:21:45.0
Services: | EUMETSAT Data Centre

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8068
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-04 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-04 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | 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.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/update-snpp-and-noaa-20-viirs-sst-products
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-07 09:30:23.0
Services: | VIIRS EDR - Suomi-NPP VIIRS EDR - JPSS

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8144
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-04 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-04 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Update to Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 OMPS Ozone Nadir Profile products, involving a filename change. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/snpp-noaa-20-omps-np-products-update
Issue Time: | 2022-04-28 13:23:17.0
Services: |

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8140
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-05 05:12:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-05 09:12:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-C
Subsystem: | IASI
Subject: | instrument-calibration
Impact: | data-unavailable
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 14:19:03.0
Services: | IASI Sounding products- Metop-C IASI Level 1 - Metop-C EARS-IASI IASI AHRPT Metop-C OSI SAF - Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8098
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-05 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-05 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Minor release of new Processing Baseline (PB) SL__SST.003.06.01 for the Sentinel-3 SLSTR L2 SST products. It addresses an error in the calculation of the per pixel emissivity that can cause a production failure. There is no change in data quality with this update.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-20 13:39:57.0
Services: | SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3A SLSTR Level 2 Marine Products - S3B

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8135
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-09 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-09 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | Update to NASA’s GPM-Core GMI data, involving format changes and changes to file naming. For full details and sample files, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/update-nasas-gpm-core-gmi-data
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 13:48:16.0
Services: | GPM-Core GMI Products

Type: | Service Enhancement
Ann Nr: | 8134
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-10 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | A new version of rainfall estimates from TAMSAT will be available from 10 May 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/new-version-rainfall-estimates-tamsat
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-27 13:45:07.0
Services: | Misc

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8143
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-11 15:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-11 15:30:00.0
Satellites: | GOES-17
Subject: | general-announcement
Impact: | risk-of-interruption
Detail: | Due to NOAA testing of GOES-18 configuration, during the indicated time period, there will be a risk of outage to GOES-17 ABI data and potential meta-data mismatches with GOES-17 GLM data.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-28 12:59:00.0
Services: | GOES Products

Type: | Planned Maintenance
Ann Nr: | 8104
Rev: | 0
Start Time: | 2022-05-18 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-05-18 09:00:00.0
Satellites: | Metop-B
Subject: | in-plane-manoeuvre
Impact: | data-degraded
Detail: | 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.
Revision History: |
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-04-20 14:12:37.0
Services: | SEM L0 - Metop-B AVHRR Level 1 - Metop-B AMSU-A Level 1 - Metop-B MHS Level 1 - Metop-B HIRS Level 1 - Metop-B ASCAT Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-B GRAS Level 1 - Metop-B GOME-2 Level 1 - Metop-B ATOVS Sounding products - Metop-B IASI Sounding Products - Metop-B ASCAT Soil Moisture - Metop-B Multi-Sensor Products - Metop-B AVHRR Polar Winds - Metop-B A-DCS AHRPT Metop-B AMSU-A AHRPT Metop-B ASCAT AHRPT Metop-B AVHRR AHRPT Metop-B GRAS AHRPT Metop-B GOME-2 AHRPT Metop-B HIRS AHRPT Metop-B IASI AHRPT Metop-B MHS AHRPT Metop-B SEM AHRPT Metop-B

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: | 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: | 7329
Rev: | 1
Start Time: | 2022-07-01 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-07-01 09:00:00.0
Subject: | general-announcement
Detail: | Transponder migration for the EUMETCast Europe High Volume Service planned for Q3 2022. For full details, see the URL provided below.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/eumetcast-europe-service-transponder-migration
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2021-09-08 16:58:29.0
Services: | EUMETCast-Europe

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: | 7033
Rev: | 4
Start Time: | 2022-10-10 09:00:00.0
End Time: | 2022-10-10 09:00:00.0
Subject: | product-change
Detail: | 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.
Revision History: |
Url: | https://www.eumetsat.int/changes-pc-compressed-iasi-l1c-data
Status: | scheduled
Issue Time: | 2022-02-09 14:30:15.0
Services: | IASI Level 1 - Metop-A IASI Level 1 - Metop-B IASI Level 1 - Metop-C

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