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

Date/Time Issued:  April 9, 2013 1232 UTC

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 10, 2013 1216 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:  N/A

Length of Outage:  N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:  Following almost 11.5 years of service
NOAA-17 (NOAA-M prior to launch) will be decommissioned on April
10, 2013,
on REV 56109 at 1216 UTC.  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>Date/Time Issued: =A0April 9, 2013 1232
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roduct(s) or Data Impacted: =A0NOAA-17, All
Instruments</div><div><br></div=
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Date/Time of Initial Impact: =A0April 10, 2013 1216
UTC</div><div><br></div=
><div>Date/Time of Expected End: =A0N/A</div><div><br></div><div>Length
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Outage: =A0N/A</div><div><br></div><div>Details/Specifics of Change:
=A0Fol=
lowing almost 11.5 years of service NOAA-17 (NOAA-M prior to launch)
will b=
e decommissioned on April 10, 2013, on REV 56109 at 1216 UTC. =A0Should
a c=
ontingency date by required, the decommissioning will occur one day
later o=
n April 11, 2013.=A0</div>

<div><br></div><div>NOAA-17 was launched on June 24, 2002. The
spacecraft e=
ngineering team in the The Office of Satellite and Product Operations
(OSPO=
) was granted approval from NESDIS headquarters to proceed with plans
to de=
commission the spacecraft after evaluating its health and ability
to provid=
e meaningful data to the scientific and weather community.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Contact Information for Further Information:
=A0ESPC Op=
erations 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 applicab=
le information:</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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ation@noaa.gov">ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov</a>. =A0You have been sent
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