Topic: Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver
Date/Time (UTC) Message
Issued: October 09, 2020 1907Z
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-C will be temporarily degraded
Date/Time (UTC) Initial
Implementation: October 07, 2020
(JDAY 281) 07:17 UTC
Date/Time (UTC) Expected
End: October 07, 2020
(JDAY 281) 13:59 UTC
Length of Outage: ~ 7 hours
A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Oct 07, 2020 (JDAY 281) with preparations starting at 07:17 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 15:24 UTC and 15:25 UTC respectively.
Instrument |
Deactivation Time |
Normal Operation |
AMSU-A1 |
07:17 |
13:17 |
AMSU-A2 |
07:17 |
13:09 |
IASI |
07:19 |
13:11 |
MHS |
07:19 |
13:01 |
SEM |
07:19 |
13:06 |
GOME |
10:36 |
13:59 |
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☐ Metop-C ☒
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