Subject: ESPC System Notification (METOP)
LEO Operations Weekly Schedule

Issued on 04/12/08 at 15:43:14

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 50/2008:
08/12/08: ASCAT. 05:46 orbit 11089.  Gain compression. 
10/12/08: GOME-2. The GOME-2 channel 1 band 1a/b separation will be shifted from detector pixel 876 to detector pixel 658 at the end
11/12/08: ASCAT.  Start of ASCAT Level 2 Soil Moisture Service on EUMETCast-Europe.  The new service provides two products, ASCAT so


EUMETCast
09/12/08: EUMETSAT will commence the dissemination of new Daily Logs on EUMETCast. For more information, see: http://www.eumetsat.in
10/12/08: 09:00 - 14:00.  Maintenance activities on 10/12/08 between 09:00 and 14:00 will cause short delays to the EUMETCast dissem


EARS
Forthcoming Events:
16 December 2008 - Start of EARS-ASCAT service on EUMETCast-Europe.  The new service comprises two products, ASCAT L2 winds on a swa



Note:

***Less THAN 2 WEEKS UNTIL HOTBIRD-6 IS SWITCHED OFF***
EUMETCast-Europe is now fully operational on both EUROBIRD 9 and HOTBIRD 6.
All Users must make the transition of their reception equipment to EUMETCast-Europe on EUROBIRD 9
as soon as possible - ideally well in advance of the EUMETCast-Europe switch-off on HOTBIRD 6 on 17 December 2008.
For more information, update packages and transition instructions, please visit the EUMETSAT WEB site at:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/What_We_Do/EUMETCast/SP_1217320833376?l=en.0 

All above times are in UTC


INFORMATION:
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