Topic:  S-NPP Inclination Adjustment Maneuver (IAM) scheduled for March 06, 2024

Date/Time Issued: March 04, 2024 20:36z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  All S-NPP Sensor Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 06, 2024 17:04:00

Date/Time of Expected End: March 06, 2024 19:19:11

Length of Outage:  See Details.

Details/Specifics of Change: On March 06, 2024 17:37:00Z,

S-NPP will perform a 71.0 second propulsive Inclination Adjustment Maneuver (IAM)

to maintain Mean Local Time of the Ascending Node while controlling the Repeating Ground Track box.

The following observatory systems will be affected on March 06, 2024:

17:04:00Z – 19:19:11Z  CERES in Contam-Safe mode, science data will not be available

17:14:00Z – 17:55:13Z  OMPS in Decon mode, Science data will not be available

17:19:00Z – 17:56:12Z  HRD will be off, data for direct broadcast users will be unavailable

17:24:00Z – 17:38:11Z  S-NPP in Control Frame 2 (IAM) (Delta-V Control Frame)

17:24:00Z – 17:51:11Z  S-NPP pointing off-nadir, collected data during that time period may be impacted and not disseminated

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

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