Topic:  GOES-18 ABI Solar Calibration Scan

Date/Time Issued: November 18, 2024 1948Z

Product or Data Impacted: GOES-18 ABI product outage

Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 25, 2024, 1450Z

Date/Time of Expected End: November 25, 2024, 1500Z

Length of the Outage/Event: Approximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations

Details/Specifics: On November 25th, 2024, GOES-18 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1450-1500Z. A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1454-1455Z, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1500Z. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1500Z.

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