Topic: Metop-B In Plane Maneuver
Date/Time (UTC) Message Issued: March 22, 2022 0205Z
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 (UTC) Initial Implementation: Mar 23, 2022 (JDAY 082) 07:58 UTC
Date/Time (UTC) Expected End: Mar 23, 2022 (JDAY 082) 14:37 UTC
Length of Outage: ~ 6.5 hours
Details/Specifics of Change: A MetOp-B Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Mar 23, 2022 (JDAY 082) with preparations starting at 07:58 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 16:05:25 UTC and 16:06:45 UTC respectively.

Instrument | Deactivation Time | Normal Operation
AMSU-A1 | 07:58:01 | 13:47:50
AMSU-A2 | 07:58:41 | 13:49:20
HIRS | 07:59:41 | 13:36:50
IASI | 07:57:56 | 13:51:50
MHS | 07:59:51 | 13:41:50
SEM | 07:59:21 | 13:46:50
GOME | 11:13:35 | 14:37:20

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☒

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