Topic: S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibration Roll Maneuver Scheduled for November 12, 2024


Date/Time Issued:  November 7, 2024 1816Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 12, 2024 02:51:57Z

Topic: S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibration Roll Maneuver Scheduled for November 12, 2024


Date/Time Issued: November 7, 2024 18:08z


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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 12, 2024 02:51:57Z

Date/Time of Expected End: November 12, 2024 03:53:57Z

Length of Outage:  See Details.

Details/Specifics of change: On November 12, 2024, S-NPP will perform a spacecraft attitude maneuver for the VIIRS Lunar Calibration, with a roll of -4.5 degrees centered at 03:16:57Z. Science data may be impacted while the spacecraft is pointing off-nadir during the attitude maneuver and the CERES instrument will not provide nominal science data as it will placed in a contamination safe mode.  The timeline of events for this maneuver are provided below.

The following observatory systems will be affected on November 12, 2024 :

02:51:57Z – 03:53:57Z  CERES will be in 
Contam-Safe and Standby, science data will not be available

03:06:57Z – 03:28:57Z  HRD will be off, data for direct broadcast users will be unavailable

03:11:27Z – 03:24:28Z  VIIRS encoder offset and gain will be set for Moon observation
03:11:57Z – 03:23:57Z  S-NPP will be pointing off-nadir, collected data may be impacted and not disseminated


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