Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued: Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 23/01/14 at 14:37:17 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 05/2014: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION The EUMETCast Europe service will be upgraded from DVB-S to the DVB-S2 standard in August 2014. For detailed information, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/TechnicalBulletins/EUMETCast/DAT_2082113.html METEOSAT RSS 14 January 2014 09:00 UTC - 13 February 2014 09:00 UTC Meteosat-9 RSS annual 1-month interruption. METEOSAT IODC 28 January 2014 - 02:58 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. 30 January 2014 - 27 March 2014 Meteosat-7 Spring 2014 eclipse season Slots 37 to 43 may not be available. 31 January 2014 - 11 February 2014 Meteosat-7 Sun Co-linearity Slot 16 and 17 may be interrupted or unavailable. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 27 January 2014 15:17 UTC orbit 37747 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 27 January 2014 - 30 January 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 27 January 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 37742 28 January 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 37763 29 January 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 37771 30 January 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 37792 METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 27 January 2014 - 30 January 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 27 January 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 37742 28 January 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 37763 29 January 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 37771 30 January 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 37792 SAF Products 30 January 2014 Sea Ice Surface Emissivity and Medium Resolution Sea Ice Drift products from OSI SAF available on EUMETCast For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2092485.html THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 28 January 2014 MTSAT-2 Ground Segment Maintenance The 21:00 UTC image may not be available. FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 18 February 2014 - 20 February 2014 Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL & REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 05 February 2014 Metop-A In-plane manoeuvre SEM and GOME data will be unavailable. A temporary degradation of the quality of GRAS Level 1 products is to be expected starting at the time of the manoeuvre. All AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, AVHRR, HIRS, IASI and MHS products may have temporarily degraded quality geo-location data after the time of the manoeuvre. Exact outage times to be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 3-7 February 2014 (exact date to be confirmed in due course) Update to SARAL/AltiKa processing software. For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2091965.html 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 Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 23/01/14 at 14:37:17 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 05/2014: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION The EUMETCast Europe service will be upgraded from DVB-S to the DVB-S2 standard in August 2014. For detailed information, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/TechnicalBulletins/EUMETCast/DAT_2082113.html METEOSAT RSS 14 January 2014 09:00 UTC - 13 February 2014 09:00 UTC Meteosat-9 RSS annual 1-month interruption. METEOSAT IODC 28 January 2014 - 02:58 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. 30 January 2014 - 27 March 2014 Meteosat-7 Spring 2014 eclipse season Slots 37 to 43 may not be available. 31 January 2014 - 11 February 2014 Meteosat-7 Sun Co-linearity Slot 16 and 17 may be interrupted or unavailable. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 27 January 2014 15:17 UTC orbit 37747 Metop-A - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 27 January 2014 - 30 January 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global winds products can be expected. 27 January 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 37742 28 January 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 37763 29 January 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 37771 30 January 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 37792 METOP AND NOAA REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 27 January 2014 - 30 January 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT external calibration. Short outages of the ASCAT regional winds products can be expected. 27 January 2014 07:16 UTC orbit 37742 28 January 2014 18:17 UTC orbit 37763 29 January 2014 08:15 UTC orbit 37771 30 January 2014 19:15 UTC orbit 37792 SAF Products 30 January 2014 Sea Ice Surface Emissivity and Medium Resolution Sea Ice Drift products from OSI SAF available on EUMETCast For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2092485.html THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 28 January 2014 MTSAT-2 Ground Segment Maintenance The 21:00 UTC image may not be available. FUTURE EVENTS METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 18 February 2014 - 20 February 2014 Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL & REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 05 February 2014 Metop-A In-plane manoeuvre SEM and GOME data will be unavailable. A temporary degradation of the quality of GRAS Level 1 products is to be expected starting at the time of the manoeuvre. All AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, AVHRR, HIRS, IASI and MHS products may have temporarily degraded quality geo-location data after the time of the manoeuvre. Exact outage times to be announced closer to the day of the manoeuvre. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 3-7 February 2014 (exact date to be confirmed in due course) Update to SARAL/AltiKa processing software. For full details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2091965.html 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