Topic: Meteosat Scheduled Interruptions
Message Issued: November 20, 2003, 1600 UTC
Satellites Impacted: Meteosat-7 and Meteosat-5
Products Impacted: Imagery and Services from Meteosat-7 and Meteosat-5
Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 24, 2003 1258 UTC
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Details:
Scheduled interruptions for Week 47
Meteosat 0° Service (Met-7)
None.
Meteosat 63° Service (Met-5)
Due to a MET-5 E-W station-keeping maneuver at 12:58 on 24 November
2003 (day 03.328), Users may experience degraded image quality for up to
6 hours after the maneuver.
There will be a Met-5 IR and WV gain change at 08:27 UTC on 25 November
2003 (day 03.329). The new gain values for IR and WV will be 6 and 8
respectively.
Meteosat Second Generation (Commissioning Operations)
Activities planned for week 48
On 24 November 2003 (day 03.328) there will be some HRV window testing
between the 10:15 and 11:00 UTC repeat cycles. During this period the
HRV window will be moved form its nominal value.
On 25 November 2003 (day 03.329) Indian Ocean Data Collection (IODC)
data from MET-5 will be made available on EUMETCast. It will be on the
LRIT channel as part of the FSD products. It will be disseminated 3
hourly.
During this trial phase there is a risk of some unscheduled
interruptions. These will normally be documented in NEWS or ADMIN sevice
messages.
Dissemination Schedules:
Meteosat 0 deg Service: current schedule S0011M01.
Meteosat 63 deg Service: current schedule S9904I01.
This information and more is available on the EUMETSAT web site -
www.eumetsat.de
Follow this link for dissemination service news -
http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/service.html
Eumetsat Operations
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Contact Information:
Brian Hughes / Tom Renkevens
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
301-763-8051 x106 / x109
Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx
Thomas.Renkevens@xxxxxxxx
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