Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050104050209090301090904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule *Date/Time Issued**:*March 13, 2014 1505 UTC* * *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*See list below. ** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:*March 13, 2014 14:48:23 UTC (from theEumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message) ** *Date/Time of Expected End:***See table in detail for on and off switch time****** *Length of Outage:*N/A* * *Details/Specifics of Change:* Weekly Operations Schedule Issued on 13/03/14 at 14:48:23 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 12/2014: 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 Straylight. During eclipse seasons,stray light affects the way the spacecraft instrument is commanded. There are periods where the black body calibration is performed after the instrument retrace instead of prior to it. This delays files for the time of the calibration (approximately three minutes) which then affects the data timeliness in the same way. This nominal calibration activity during eclipse season will therefore cause periods of noticeable delays to reception of data by Users. Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2014 are available on EUMETSAT Website: www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en (See section "Straylight Predictions (XML)") METEOSAT IODC 30 January 2014 - 27 March 2014 Meteosat-7 Spring 2014 eclipse season Slots 37 to 43 may not be available. 18 March 2014 - 01:58 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 22 March 2013 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-B - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS Effective from 24 February 2014 15:00 UTC and until further notice Stop of the dissemination via EUMETCast of ISRO OSCAT data as they currently have degraded quality. From 21 February 2014 08:00 UTC and until further notice FY-3B Due to a failure of the MWTS instrument on board FY-3B satellite, the dissemination of MWTS data on EUMETCast has stopped. 18 March 2014 Change of EUMETCast channel for the 'Copernicus Global Land Service - Africa' data stream. The data will move from EUMETSAT Data Channel 3 to TPC-5 channel. For more details, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095896.html?lang=EN&pState=1&unCacher=292 20 March 2014 20:30 UTC - 21:29 UTC GOES-15 Yaw Flip Manoeuvre The quality of data may be degraded during the recovery period from 20 March 20:30 UTC to 22 March 00:44 UTC 20 March 2014 MTSAT-2 Due to ground segment maintenance the image at 21:00 UTC will be unavailable. 21 March 2014 GOES-15 The image at 09:00 UTC may be unavailable. FUTURE EVENTS GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 03 April 2014 Removal of the MSG Administration Messages and change of format for MSG news messages sent via EUMETCast. For more details, please see:www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2107074.html METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 26 March 2014 METOP-B - Out-of-plane manoeuvre All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS, SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service, will not be available. The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-B will be temporarily degraded. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 24 April 2014 (postponed from the initial date of 13 March 2014) Update to SARAL BUFR products. For more details and test data, please see:http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095904.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 --------------050104050209090301090904 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic:  Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued: March 13,  2014  1505  UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  See list below.

Date/Time of Initial Impact:March 13,  2014  14:48:23 UTC  (from the Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule message)

Date/Time of Expected End:  See table in detail for on and off switch time  

Length of Outage:  N/A

Details/Specifics of Change:

Weekly Operations Schedule

Issued on 13/03/14 at 14:48:23

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 12/2014:

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/Techn

Meteosat Straylight.
During eclipse seasons,stray light affects the way the spacecraft
instrument is commanded. There are periods where the black body
calibration is performed after the instrument retrace instead of prior
to it. This delays files for the time of the calibration (approximately
three minutes) which then affects the data timeliness in the same
way. This nominal calibration activity during eclipse season will
therefore cause periods of noticeable delays to reception of data
by Users.
Meteosat Straylight Predictions for Winter/Spring 2014 are available
on EUMETSAT Website:
www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/ServiceStatus/index.htm?l=en
(See section "Straylight Predictions (XML)")


METEOSAT IODC
30 January 2014 - 27 March 2014
Meteosat-7 Spring 2014 eclipse season
Slots 37 to 43 may not be available.

18 March 2014 - 01:58 UTC
Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre
Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following
the manoeuvre.


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
22 March 2013 05:12 - 09:12 UTC
Metop-B - IASI External Calibration
IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available.


THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
Effective from 24 February 2014 15:00 UTC and until further notice
Stop of the dissemination via EUMETCast of ISRO OSCAT data as they
currently have degraded quality.

>From 21 February 2014 08:00 UTC and until further notice
FY-3B
Due to a failure of the MWTS instrument on board FY-3B satellite,
the dissemination of MWTS data on EUMETCast has stopped.

18 March 2014
Change of EUMETCast channel for the 'Copernicus Global Land Service -
Africa' data stream.
The data will move from EUMETSAT Data Channel 3 to TPC-5 channel.
For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/webs

20 March 2014 20:30 UTC - 21:29 UTC
GOES-15 Yaw Flip Manoeuvre
The quality of data may be degraded during the recovery period from
20 March 20:30 UTC to 22 March 00:44 UTC

20 March 2014
MTSAT-2
Due to ground segment maintenance the image at 21:00 UTC  will be
unavailable.

21 March 2014
GOES-15
The image at 09:00 UTC may be unavailable.


FUTURE EVENTS
GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION
03 April 2014
Removal of the MSG Administration Messages and change of format for
MSG news messages sent via EUMETCast.
For more details, please see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2107074.html


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE
26 March 2014
METOP-B - Out-of-plane manoeuvre
All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, GRAS, IASI, MHS,
SEM, in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service,
will not be available.
The AVHRR GDS Level 1 products and AVHRR regional data from Metop-B
will be temporarily degraded.


THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS
24 April 2014 (postponed from the initial date of 13 March 2014)
Update to SARAL BUFR products.
For more details and test data, please
see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2095904.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
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