Subject: Administrative: Notification of NOAA-17 Decommissioning Date,
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Topic:	Notification of NOAA-17 Decommissioning Date

Date/Time Issued:  March 26, 2013 1850 UTC

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 10, 2013

Date/Time of Expected End:  N/A

Length of Outage:  N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:  Following almost 11 years of service
NOAA-17
(NOAA-M prior to launch) will be decommissioned on April 10, 2013.
Should
a contingency date by required, the decommissioning will occur one day
later on April 11, 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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<div><div>Topic: =A0Notification of NOAA-17 Decommissioning
Date</div><div>=
<br></div><div>Date/Time Issued: =A0March 26, 2013 1850
UTC</div><div><br><=
/div><div>Product(s) or Data Impacted: =A0NOAA-17, All
Instruments</div><di=
v><br>



</div><div>Date/Time of Initial Impact: =A0April 10,
2013</div><div><br></d=
iv><div>Date/Time of Expected End:
=A0N/A</div><div><br></div><div>Length o=
f Outage: =A0N/A</div><div><br></div><div>Details/Specifics of
Change: =A0<=
span
style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-famil=
y:arial,sans-serif">Following almost 11 years of service NOAA-17
(NOAA-M pr=
ior to launch) will be decommissioned on April 10, 2013. =A0Should
a contin=
gency date by required, the decommissioning will occur one day later
on Apr=
il 11, 2013. =A0NOAA-17 was launched on June 24, 2002. The spacecraft
engin=
eering team in the The Office of Satellite and Product Operations
(OSPO) wa=
s granted approval from NESDIS headquarters to proceed with plans
to decomm=
ission the spacecraft after evaluating its health and ability to
provide me=
aningful data to the scientific and weather community.=A0</span></div>



<div><br></div><div>Contact Information for Further Information:
=A0ESPC Op=
erations at <a href=3D"mailto:ESPCOperations@noaa.gov"
target=3D"_blank">ES=
PCOperations@noaa.gov</a> at <a href=3D"tel:%28301%29817-3880"
value=3D"+13=
018173880" target=3D"_blank">(301)817-3880</a></div>


<div><br></div><div>Web Site(s) for applicable information:</div>
<div>See <a href=3D"http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html"
target=
=3D"_blank">http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html</a> for
this and =
other satellite related messages.</div><div>See <a
href=3D"http://www.oso.n=
oaa.gov/poesstatus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=3D17"
target=3D"_=
blank">http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?space=
craft=3D17</a> for NOAA-17 spacecraft summary.</div>



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