Topic: GOES-17 Data Outage and Degradation due to interleaving test May 11, 2022

Date/Time Issued: April 6, 2022 1401 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-17 (GOES-West) ABI, GLM, Space Weather

Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 11, 2022 1500 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: May 11, 2022 1530 UTC

Length of Outage: 30 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change:

On May 11, 2022 at 1500 UTC, an interleave test will be performed on the GOES-17 (GOES-West) GRB feed. The purpose of this test is to exercise the interleaving configuration before GOES-18 drifts from Test (89.5 degrees West) to near-West (136.8 degrees West). The test entails routing GOES-18 preliminary non-operational ABI data through the GOES-17 GRB to operational GOES-West GRB users.

Due to the configuration of the Ground System, GOES-17 data distributed to GOES-West GRB and PDA users is subject to possible degradation or incorrect metadata because of the unique configuration. Even though GLM and Space Weather products will be from GOES-17, it is subject to possible degradation or incorrect metadata. The metadata which may be incorrect includes the global attribute “orbital_slot” and other location-related metadata. More information on global attributes is available in the Product User’s Guide (PUG).

GOES-West GRB & PDA data should not be used operationally during this time period. This shall be considered an outage of GOES-West operational data.

	GOES-17 Data Quality
	ABI	GLM	Space Weather
GOES-West GRB	OUTAGE (GOES-18 preliminary non-operational data)	Nominal but metadata may be incorrect	Nominal but metadata may be incorrect
GOES-West data in PDA, AWIPS, LZSS	Nominal	Nominal but metadata may be incorrect	Nominal but metadata may be incorrect

This test is subject to Critical Weather Day.

Contact Information for Further Information: Joseph.Fiore@noaa.gov or SPSD.UserServices.noaa.gov

Website for Applicable Information: https://www.goes-r.gov/users/transitionToOperations18.html

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