Topic: GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan

Date/Time Issued: January 27, 2026 1800Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-18 ABI product outage

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  February 02, 2026 (DOY 033) 1520 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:  February 02, 2026 (DOY 033) 1530Z

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

Details/Specifics:

On February 02, 2026, GOES-18 ABI 10-minute Flex Mode (mode 6) will be replaced with 10 minutes of Continuous Full Disk (mode 4) from 1520Z-1530Z. A GOES-18 ABI solar calibration scan will be performed between 1521Z-1523Z resulting in an outage of all ABI products. ABI 10-minutes Flex Mode (mode 6) will resume at 1530 UTC. The next Full Disk scan will populate at 1530Z.

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