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Administrative: Notification of NOAA-17 Decommissioning on March
20, 2013,
Issued: February 20, 2013, 1945 UTC

Topic: Notification of NOAA-17 Decommissioning on March 20, 2013

Date/Time Issued: February 20, 2013 1946 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: NOAA-17, All Instruments

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 20, 2013

Date/Time of Expected End: N/A

Length of Outage: See table in detail.

Details/Specifics of Change:  Following almost 11 years of service
NOAA-17
(NOAA-M prior to launch) will be decommissioned on March 20,
2013. NOAA-17
was launched on June 24, 2002. The spacecraft engineering team in
the The
Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) was granted
approval from
NESDIS headquarters to proceed with plans to decommission the
spacecraft
after evaluating its health and ability to provide meaningful data
to the
scientific and weather community.

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at
ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information:
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other
satellite related messages.
See
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=17for
NOAA-17 spacecraft summary

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tification of NOAA-17 Decommissioning on March 20,
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<div>Date/Time Issued: February 20, 2013 1946
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Product(s) or Data Impacted: NOAA-17, All
Instruments</div><div><br></div><=
div>Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 20,
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Date/Time of Expected End: N/A</div><div><br></div><div>Length of
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=A0Following almost 11 years of service NOAA-17 (NOAA-M prior to
launch) wi=
ll be decommissioned on March 20, 2013. NOAA-17 was launched on June
24, 20=
02. The spacecraft engineering team in the The Office of Satellite
and Prod=
uct Operations (OSPO) was granted approval from NESDIS headquarters
to proc=
eed with plans to decommission the spacecraft after evaluating its
health a=
nd ability to provide meaningful data to the scientific and weather
communi=
ty.=A0</div>

<div><br></div><div>Contact Information for Further Information:
ESPC Opera=
tions at <a
href=3D"mailto:ESPCOperations@noaa.gov">ESPCOperations@noaa.gov=
</a> at 301-817-3880</div><div><br></div><div>Web Site(s) for
applicable in=
formation:</div>

<div>See <a
href=3D"http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html">http://w=
ww.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html</a> for this and other satellite
rela=
ted messages.</div><div>See <a
href=3D"http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/s=
pacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=3D17">http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poessta=
tus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=3D17</a> for NOAA-17
spacecraft =
summary</div>

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