Topic: GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan
Date/Time Issued: December 2, 2022 1536 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-17 ABI product outage
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 10, 2022 0300 UTC
Date/Time of Expected End: December 10, 2022 0310 UTC
Length of Outage: Approximately 5 minutes at the beginning of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations
Details/Specifics of Change:
On December 10, 2022, GOES-17 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with approximately 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 0300-0310 UTC. A GOES-17 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 0300-0305 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minutes Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 0310 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 0310 UTC.
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