Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scans scheduled for June 1-2, 2020

Date/Time Issued: May 26, 2020 1356Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI MESO-2 outages

Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 1, 2020  12:30 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: June 2, 2020 18:54 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 June 1-2, 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:

·         6/1/2020 (DOY 153) – 12:30:59 UTC & 14:00:06 UTC

·         6/2/2020 (DOY 154) – 13:32:12 UTC & 14:41:08 UTC

GOES-17:

·         6/1/2020 (DOY153) – 16:48:06 UTC & 18:16:14 UTC

·         6/2/2020 (DOY154) – 17:53:14 UTC & 18:54:30 UTC