Topic: GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan

Date/Time Issued: January 23, 2020 1525Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-17 ABI product outage

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 29, 2020 0320Z

Date/Time of Expected End: January 29, 2020 0330Z Length of Outage: Approximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations

Details/Specifics of Change:

On January 29, 2020, GOES-17 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 0320-0330UTC. A GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 0320-0325 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minutes Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 0330 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 0330UTC.


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