Topic: Metop-A Collision Avoidance in-plane Maneuver

Date/Time Issued: May 16, 2019 1835Z

Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GRAS, IASI, MHS, AVHRR in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service will be temporarily degraded. GOME-2 and SEM products will not be available.M-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^B

Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation:
May 16, 2019 (JDAY 136) TBD UTC

Date/Time (UTC) Expected End:
May 16, 2019 (JDAY 136) TBD UTC

Length of Outage: TBD

Details/Specifics of Change:M-B M-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^B
A Metop-A Collision Avoidance Maneuver will be performed May 16, 2019, preheating beginning at 1350 UTC with the maneuver ending at 1522 UTC that same day.

This maneuver is to avoid collision with NOAA 16 DEB (41259).

The SEM instrument will be placed into Maneuver Mode at TBD on May 16, 2019 and returned back to its Normal Operating Mode at TBD that same day.

The GOME instrument timeline ends at TBD UTC and mirror parked before the burn on May 16, 2019. The GOME timeline is reactivated at TBD UTC that same day.

Instrument off/on TBD times will be provided by NOAA when received from EUMETSAT.

Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed.

Contact Information for Further Information:
ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Spacecraft Affected:M-B NOAA-15 M-bM-^XM-^PM-BM-B NOAA-18 M-bM-^XM-^PM-B NOAA-19 M-bM-^XM-^P Metop-A M-bM-^XM-^R Metop-B M-bM-^XM-^P

Web Site(s) for Applicable Information:
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages.
See http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Satellites/CurrentSatellites/Metop/index.html for more information Metop satellitesM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^BM-bM-^@M-^B