Subject: Weekly_Operations_Schedule_20120921110757.txt
Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 21/09/12 at 11:07:57

Seq Nr: 2

Planned activities for week 39/2012:

GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
EUMETSAT recommends users to increase the maximum memory usage of their
EUMETCast reception stations.
For full details, please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/822668?l=en.

25 - 27 September 2012
Website maintenance  + + + + UPDATED + + + +
Critical times will be 16:00 - 17:00 UTC on 25/09, 05:30 - 09:00 UTC on
26/09, and 16:00 - 17:00 UTC on 27/09. This may affect the performance
of the EUMETSAT website.
Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Autumn 2012 available on EUMETSAT
Website:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en
(See Section "Operational Schedules")

METEOSAT 0 DEG SERVICE
25 September 2012	07:28 UTC
Meteosat-9 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre
Users may experience degraded image quality  for up to 3 hours
following
the manoeuvre.
Users may experience degraded meteorological product quality  for up to
3 hours following the manoeuvre.

METEOSAT IODC
13 September 2012 - 24 September 2012
Meteosat-7 Sun Co-linearity
Slot 16 may be interrupted or unavailable.

06 August 2012 - 29 September 2012
Meteosat-7 Autumn 2012 eclipse season
Slots 37 to 43 may not be available.

METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
24 September 2012  19:16 UTC orbit 30788
ASCAT external calibration.
Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and
regional winds products can be expected.

29 September 2012  05:13 - 09:12 UTC
IASI External Calibration
IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available.

METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT
For current information please see:
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=17

THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
Effective immediately
Change to filename of Landsat data for OSFAC (Observatoire Satellital
des Forêts d'Afrique Centrale). For full details, please see:
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/ProductServiceNews/822716?l=en

20 August 2012 - 28 October 2012
MTSAT Eclipse Season
14:00 and 15:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.

24 August 2012 - 09 October 2012
GOES West Eclipse Season
09:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.

28 August 2012 - 15 October 2012
GOES East Eclipse Season
05:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete.


INFORMATION:
For further information, please contact the EUMETSAT User Services
Helpdesk
Tel: +49 6151 807 366
Fax: +49 6151 807 379
Email: ops@eumetsat.int
www.eumetsat.int