Topic: Metop-B Collision Avoidance In-Plane Maneuver

Date/Time Issued: July 15, 2024 1547Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GRAS, IASI, MHS, AVHRR in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service will be temporarily degraded. GOME-2 and SEM products will not be available.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 13, 2024 1000Z J/DAY 195

Date/Time of Expected End: July 13, 2024 1504Z J/DAY 195

Length of Event: 5 hours, 04 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change: A Metop-B Collision Avoidance In-Plane Maneuver was performed July 13, 2024, preheating beginning at 10:56Z with the maneuver ending at 12:27Z. This maneuver was to avoid collision with object number 10144. The SEM instrument was placed into Maneuver Mode at 10:00Z on July 13, 2024 and returned back to its Normal Operating Mode at 15:04Z the same day.

The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument was
performed at 17:02Z on July 13, 2024. The GOME instrument timeline ends and mirror parked before the burn at 12:04Z on July 13, 2024. The GOME timeline was reactivated at 13:46 UTC the same day.

Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed

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