Subject: Administrative: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule Issued: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020809080000010200090209 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule *Date/Time Issued**:*April 30, 2014 1400 UTC* * *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*See list below. ** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* April 30, 2014 13:28:48 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 30/04/14 at 13:28:48 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 19/2014: 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 0 DEG SERVICE 06 May 2014 09:30 UTC - 09:45 UTC Essential ground segment maintenance. During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption to the Meteosat-10 mission data. METEOSAT RSS 06 May 2014 09:00 UTC - 08 May 2014 09:00 UTC Monthly RSS interruption Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance. Meteosat-8 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the Meteosat-9 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not available during this timeframe. An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when switching to and from Meteosat-8. METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE Metop-A MHS Hardware failure The instrument manufacturer has now completed its analysis into the short-circuit of two independent heater switches believed to have been the cause of the Metop-A MHS instrument anomaly. The outcome of the analysis indicates that testing on these switches could resume without risk of damage to the instrument. These tests are planned to be performed in the coming week. If they prove successful, plans for the recovery of the operational services will be initiated. Until then, Metop-A MHS L1B and ATOVS L2 products remain unavailable. 05 May 2014 14:02 UTC orbit 8452 Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 06 May 2014 07:45 - 09:35 orbit 27009 07 May 2014 07:35 - 09:20 orbit 27023 Upgrades to the Svalbard Antenna monitoring and control system. Two NOAA-19 passes will not be supported at Svalbard and the data will be dumped by NOAA on later orbits. The data will only be available through the NOAA CLASS archive. SAF PRODUCTS 08 May 2014 18:55 - 19:55 UTC (Metop-A) 19:45 - 21:26 UTC (Metop-B) GOME-2 operations (see above), O3M SAF Near Real Time Total Column products (Total Column Ozone, the Total Column NO2, and the Tropospheric NO2) will be unavailable. 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 --------------020809080000010200090209 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic: Eumetsat Weekly Operations Schedule

Date/Time Issued: April 30, 2014 1400 UTC

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 30, 2014 13:28:48 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 30/04/14 at 13:28:48

Seq Nr: 1

Planned activities for week 19/2014:
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 0 DEG SERVICE
06 May 2014  09:30 UTC	- 09:45 UTC
Essential ground segment maintenance.
During this maintenance period there is a risk of a short interruption
to the Meteosat-10 mission data.


METEOSAT RSS
06 May 2014  09:00 UTC - 08 May 2014  09:00 UTC
Monthly RSS interruption
Meteosat-9 Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) will be suspended for scheduled
Full Earth Scanning and Ground Segment Maintenance.
Meteosat-8 RSS image data, rectified to 9.5 deg E, replaces the
Meteosat-9 service. The RSS meteorological product service is not
available during this timeframe.
An outage of 15 minutes (or slightly more) can be expected when
switching to and from Meteosat-8.


METOP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE
Metop-A MHS Hardware failure
The instrument manufacturer has now completed its analysis into the
short-circuit of two independent heater switches believed to have
been the cause of the Metop-A MHS instrument anomaly. The outcome of
the analysis indicates that testing on these switches could resume
without risk of damage to the instrument. These tests are planned to
be performed in the coming week. If they prove successful, plans for
the recovery of the operational services will be initiated. Until then,
Metop-A MHS L1B and ATOVS L2 products remain unavailable.

05 May 2014  14:02 UTC orbit 8452
Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression
A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected.

06 May 2014 07:45 - 09:35 orbit 27009
07 May 2014 07:35 - 09:20 orbit 27023
Upgrades to the Svalbard Antenna monitoring and control system.
Two NOAA-19 passes will not be supported at Svalbard and the data will
be dumped by NOAA on later orbits. The data will only be available
through the NOAA CLASS archive.


SAF PRODUCTS
08 May 2014
18:55 - 19:55 UTC (Metop-A)
19:45 - 21:26 UTC (Metop-B)
GOME-2 operations (see above),
O3M SAF Near Real Time Total Column products (Total Column Ozone,
the Total Column NO2, and the Tropospheric NO2) will be unavailable.




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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