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Topic: Metop-B Collision Avoidance In-Plane Maneuver
Date/Time (UTC) Message Issued: Dec 15, 2020 2310 Z
Product(s) Involved/Affected: All products from AMSU-A, ASCAT, ATOVS, GRAS, IASI, MHS, AVHRR in the Metop Global Data Service and Regional Data Service was temporarily degraded. GOME-2 and SEM products were not available.
Date/Time (UTC) Initial Implementation: Dec 15, 2020 (JDAY 350) 12:05 Z
Date/Time (UTC) Expected End: Dec 15, 2020 (JDAY 350) 17:09 Z
Length of Outage: ~ 5 hours
A Metop-B Collision Avoidance In-Plane Maneuver was performed Dec 15, 2020, preheating beginning at 12:58 Z with the maneuver ending at 14:29 Z that same day.
This maneuver was to avoid collision with Fengyun 1C debris (object number 30802).
The SEM instrument was placed into Maneuver Mode at 12:05 Z on Dec 15, 2020 and returned back to its Normal Operating Mode at 17:09 Z that same day.
The manual selection of optimal TED and MEPED calibrations for the SEM instrument was performed at 19:07 Z and 19:08 Z respectively.
The GOME instrument timeline ends and mirror parked before the burn at 14:24 UTC on Dec 15, 2020. The GOME timeline was reactivated at 16:06 Z that same day.
Data from the outage period will not be recovered nor distributed.
Spacecraft Affected: NOAA-15 ☐ NOAA-18 ☐ NOAA-19 ☐ Metop-A ☐ Metop-B ☒
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