Topic: Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver
Date/Time Issued: September 17, 2026 0003Z
Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available. The
AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-C will be temporarily degraded
Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation: Sep 16, 2026 (JDAY 259) 07:17 UTC
Date/Time Expected End: Sep 16, 2026 (JDAY 259) 13:56 UTC
Length of Outage: 6.5 hours
Details/Specifics of Change:
A Metop-C Out of Plane Maneuver will be performed Sep 16, 2026 (JDAY 245) with preparations
starting at 07:07 UTC.`
For this maneuver some instruments will not be producing data. The data outage times are listed below.
Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed.
The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument will be
performed at 15:24:42 and 15:26:02 UTC respectively.
Instrument Deactivation
Time
Normal
Operation
AMSU-A1 07:17:22 13:07:35
AMSU-A2 07:18:02 13:09:05
HIRS N/A N/A
IASI 07:17:17 13:11:35
MHS 07:19:12 13:01:35
SEM 07:18:42 13:06:35
GOME 10:32:29 13:56:17
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-16 ☐ NOAA-17 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☐ Metop-C ☒
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