Date/Time Issued: December
11, 2014
1745 UTC
Product(s) or Data Impacted: See list below.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 11, 2014 15:30:29 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 11/12/14 at 15:30:29 Seq Nr: 1 Planned activities for week 51/2014: 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 RSS 16 December 2014 09:00 UTC - 18 December 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, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL DATA SERVICE 15 December 2014 15:08 UTC Metop-B - ASCAT Gain Compression A short outage of all ASCAT products can be expected. 19 December 2014 08:51 - 09:03 UTCMetop-B - MHS Machine Error Counter Reset A short outage of all MHS products can be expected. 20 December 2014 05:12 - 09:12 UTC Metop-A - IASI External Calibration IASI GDS Level 1C and Level 2 products will not be available. METOP, S-NPP AND NOAA GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DATA SERVICE 01 October 2014 - 19 January 2015 - Metop-A 22 December 2014 - 28 February 2015 - Metop-B 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. 16 December 2014 Metop-B In-plane manoeuvre Burn time: 12:01:14.224 UTC duration 5.082 seconds. 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. METOP AHRPT DIRECT READOUT 16 December 2014 08:38 - 08:44 UTC (Metop-A) 16 December 2014 09:31 - 09:37 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 >From 04 December 2014 MODIS dbwinds Due to an anomaly at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) the MODIS dbwinds products cannot be disseminated until further notice. FUTURE EVENTS METEOSAT RSS 13 January 2015 09:00 UTC - 10 February 2015 09:00 UTC Meteosat-9 RSS yearly 1-month interruption. There will be no RSS gap filling coverage from Meteosat-8 during the one month Meteosat-9 RSS outage. For more details, please see: http://www.eumetsat.int/websi 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