Date/Time Issued:
October
16 2014 1710 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 16 2014 15:44:43 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 16/10/14 at 15:44:43 Seq Nr: 2 Planned activities for week 43/2014: GENERIC SERVICE INFORMATION 14 August - 31 December 2014 The EUMETCast-Europe DVB-S2 Basic Service is operational. A parallel operational phase with DVB-S is provided till 31 December 2014, at which date the DVB-S service will end. Further information is available: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2305543.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 20 October 2014 - 24 October 2014 Planned maintenance on the MSG Ground Segment involving migration to a new hardware platform. On 23 October, there will be an associated risk of interruption to the Meteosat-10 products for up to 2 repeat cycles. Users may also experience degraded production reporting during this period. With this new hardware platform, the meteorological product generation will be modified - it will only start after the reception of the complete Meteosat image. There will be no changes to the products but this will have a small impact on the dissemination: products may arrive slightly earlier or later than presently expected. The difference in dissemination times may, in some cases, be up to 2 minutes. A set of meteorological products generated from the new hardware is available at: ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/test-data/Met-Pro METEOSAT RSS 21 October 2014 09:00 UTC - 23 October 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. METEOSAT IODC 21 October 2014 20:28 UTC Meteosat-7 East West Station Keeping Manoeuvre Users may observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours following the manoeuvre. METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 20 October 2014 14:25 UTC Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 21 October 2014 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. The Aerosol Optical Depth over ocean contained in EUMETSAT's Polar Multi-Sensor Aerosol Optical Properties product (PMAP) was granted an ?operational? status on 14 October 2014. For more details, see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2358622.html METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 01 October - 01 December 2014 Metop-A - ASCAT Extensive Calibration Short outages of the ASCAT GDS Level 1, soil moisture and global and regional winds products can be expected, during satellite passes over Turkey. 22 October 2014 09:00 - 16:00 UTC METOP-B - Out-of-plane manoeuvre Burn time: 2014-10-22 11:46:51.814 - 11:55:14.602 UTC All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GOME-2, IASI, HIRS, 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 will be temporarily degraded. GRAS data will be degraded for up to 4 hours after the manoeuvre. 23 October 2014 (***** UPDATED *****) S-NPP - Drag Makeup Manoeuvre (DMU) Confirmation and timing details will be provided after the analysis of the Inclination Adjustment Manoeuvre. REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 29 October 2014 New EARS-VIIRS service available on EUMETCast Europe For full details, see: http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2355183.html METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT 21 October 2014 09:37 - 09:43 UTC (Metop-A) 21 October 2014 08:48 - 08:54 UTC (Metop-B) SEM MPED in flight calibration A short outage of all SEM products can be expected at these times. THIRD-PARTY DATA AND PRODUCTS 17 August 2014 - 23 October 2014 MTSAT-2 Eclipse Season 14:00 UTC and 15:00 UTC image data may be unavailable or incomplete. 09 September 2014 07:00 UTC - 12:00 UTC Power outage in Lannion - Meteo France GOES-13, GOES-15 and MTSAT-2 Image data will be unavailable. FUTURE EVENTS >From 4 November 2014 The SEVIRI HRV upper window will be shifted Westwards daily at 17:00 UTC in order to cover the Azores and then moved back in its original position at 00:00 UTC. This will be done for a trial period of one month, after which, unless differently announced it is foreseen that the HRV upper window movement will be applied operationally. For full details, see: www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_2354871.html METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 29 October 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. 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