Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-18 ABI Lunar Trending Calibration Scans scheduled for Sep 27 - Sep 29, 2023

Date/Time Issued: September 22, 2023, 1611Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 and GOES-18 ABI MESO-2 outages

Date/Time of Initial Impact: Sep 27, 2023, 1523Z

Date/Time of Expected End: Sep 29, 2023, 1750Z

Length of Outage: Approximately 2 minutes for each event. See the schedule below.

Details/Specifics of Change:

Several, very short, GOES-16 and GOES-18 routine calibration scans for lunar trending will be performed on Sep 27 - Sep 29, 2023, 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 schedules are below.

Impacts:

GOES-16:

09/28/2023 (DOY 271) 15:36:25 UTC & 09/29/2023 (DOY 272) 17:50:42 UTC
09/27/2023 (DOY 270) 15:23:01 UTC & 15:27:01 UTC

GOES-18:

09/28/2023 (DOY 271) 19:50:37 UTC & 21:16:14 UTC
09/27/2023 (DOY 270) 19:29:46 UTC & 19:54:46 UTC

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