Subject: Operations_Weekly_Schedule_20090423133447.txt
Operations Weekly Schedule

Issued on 30/04/09 at 12:48:34

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Planned activities for week 19/2009:

RAPID SCANNING SERVICE: METEOSAT-8
The rapid scanning service will be suspended between 05/05/09 at 09:00
UTC and 06/05/09 at 09:00 UTC for scheduled full earth scanning and
Ground Segment essential maintenance. Full earth images (if any) will
not be disseminated.

0 DEGREE SERVICE: METEOSAT-9
Due to a Meteosat-9 North-South orbit inclination manoeuvre followed by
a spin rate adjustment on 06/05/09 at  15:17 UTC, users may experience
up to 24 hours of degraded quality of Meteosat-9 SEVIRI images and
meteorological products . In addition, the east-west position of the
Meteosat-9 SEVIRI HRV channel image will not be changed between 15:00
and 17:00 UTC.

GROUND SEGMENT
Due to essential ground segment maintenance on 05/05/09 between 09:00
and 10:00 UTC, there is a risk of interruption to the following
services:
						  0 Degree Service
0 Deg. SEVIRI High Rate Meteosat-9			   Foreign
Satellite Data
0 Deg. SEVIRI Low Rate Meteosat-9
Meteorlogical
Data Distribution
0 Deg. Meteorlogical Products Meteosat-9		   Data
Collection and Retransmission Service
						     RSS Service
SEVIRI High Rate Meteosat-8
SEVIRI Low Rate Meteosat-8
Meteorlogical Products Meteosat-8

Due to essential maintenance on 06/05/09 between 09:00 and 15:00 UTC,
there may be up to a 1 minute delay in nominal timeliness affecting the
following services: Internet, RMDCN and EumetCast dissemination.

Due to essential maintenance on 07/05/09 between 09:00 and 11:00 UTC,
there may be up to a 1 minute delay in nominal timeliness affecting the
following services: MTP products only on Internet, RMDCN and EumetCast
dissemination.

EUMETCast
On 07/05/09, EUMETSAT will combine the LEO and Meteosat Operations
Weekly Schedules into one generic Weekly Operations Schedule.  The
common Weekly Operations Schedule will be delivered to the User
community via EUMETCast, the UNS Web pages and as part of the email
alert service.	The delivery format on EUMETCast will be ASCII and the
target directory will be Info-Channel-2.  Users registered for email
alerts will have their existing subscription automatically transferred
to the new combine Weekly Operations Schedule.

FOREIGN SATELLITE DATA
Due to a GOES11_135W manoeuvre planned for 05/05/09 at 13:00 UTC, there
will be no images at 13:00 UTC. Images may be incomplete for up to 6
hours after the manoeuvre.

Due to essential maintenance in Lannion on 06/05/09 from 07:30 to 13:00
UTC, GOES_12 files will be unavailable. MTSAT and GOES_11 files may be
unavailable.

IODC INFORMATION
There will be a Meteosat-7 IR gain change from 11 to 10 on 05/05/09 at
09:28 UTC.

Due to a Meteosat-7 manoeuvre on 05/05/09 at 23:28 UTC, users may
observe degraded image quality for up to 6 hours after 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