Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scans scheduled for March 9-13, 2020
Date/Time Issued: March 11, 2020 2002 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI MESO-2 outages
Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 9, 2020 2206 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: March 13, 2020 0022 UTC
Length of Outage: Approximately 2 minutes for each event. See schedule below.
Details/Specifics of Change:
Several, very short, GOES-16 and GOES-17 routine calibration scans for lunar trending will be performed on March 9-13, 2020 resulting in an outage of ABI MESO-2 products for about 2 minutes for each event. ABI MESO-1 will still be available during this time. The schedule is below.
Impacts:
GOES-16:
· 3/10/2020 (DOY 070) – 17:27:19 UTC & 18:55:40 UTC
· 3/12/2020 (DOY 072) – 19:37:41 UTC & 20:18:01 UTC
GOES-17:
· 3/09/2020 (DOY069) – 22:06:54 UTC
· 3/10/2020 (DOY070) – 21:43:49 UTC
· 3/13/2020 (DOY073) – 00:07:32 UTC & 00:22:32 UTC
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