Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scans scheduled for December 23 -December 24, 2020

Date/Time Issued: December 17, 2020 1412Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 23, 2020 1124Z

Date/Time of Expected End: December 24, 2020 1724Z

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 December 23 -December 24, 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:

· 12/23/2020(DOY 358) – 11:24:10 UTC & 12:47:23 UTC

· 12/24/2020(DOY 359) – 12:17:18 UTC & 13:14:28 UTC

GOES-17:

· 12/23/2020(DOY 358) - 15:40:08 UTC & 17:01:54 UTC

· 12/24/2020(DOY 359) – 16:37:38 UTC & 17:24:35 UTC

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