Topic: GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan

Date/Time Issued: Jan 13, 2025 2005Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 ABI product outage

Date/Time of Initial Impact: Jan 20, 2025, 1110 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:  Jan 20, 2025, 1120 UTC

Length of OutageApproximately 5 minutes at the end of a period of Continuous Full Disk operations

Details/Specifics of ChangeOn January 20th, 2025, GOES-16 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1110-1120 UTC. A GOES-16 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1111 -1112 UTC, resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1120 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1120 UTC.


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