G16 ABI Solar Calibration Scan 1/7
Topic: GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan
Date/Time Issued: December 29, 2022 1908Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 ABI product outage
Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 7, 2023 1100Z
Date/Time of Expected End: January 7, 2023 1110Z
Length of Outage: Approximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations
Details/Specifics of Change: On January 7, 2023, GOES-16 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with approximately 5 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1100-1110 UTC. A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1100-1105 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minutes Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1110 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1110 UTC.
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