[McIDAS #CQG-816764]: GOES-16 LDM feed MDS and CONUS outage

Hi Carol,

re:
> Ah ok! That makes more sense.

Yup :-)

re:
> How long will it be in mode 4?

Here is the last notice we received from ESPCOperations:

"Update#1 GOES-16 Mode-4 change did not began until 1820Z

 Topic: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Mode Change

 Date/Time Issued: December 04, 2018 1829 UTC

 Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Data

 Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 4, 2018 1800 UTC

 Date/Time of Expected End: December 4, 2018 2200 UTC

 Length of Event: 4 hours

 Details/Specifics of Change:

 On December 4, 2018 at 1800 UTC, the GOES-16 (GOES-EAST) and GOES-17 
 Advanced Baseline Imagers (ABI) will operate in Continuous Full Disk 
 Mode (mode 4) for 4 hours for testing storage updates. Continuous Full 
 Disk Mode means products will be generated for Full Disk only, every 5 
 minutes.


 This test will be cancelled in the event of a Critical Weather Day 
 declaration prior to the event start.

 Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at 
 address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>or 301-817-3880

 Web Site(s) for applicable information:

 See https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/messages.htmlfor this and other 
 satellite related messages.

 See https://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/abi.htmlfor ABI specific 
 information.

 This message was sent to address@hidden"

My guess is that they are running both GOES-16 and GOES-17 in mode 4 to
test the ground system(s) capability to handle the maximum data rate.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket ID: CQG-816764
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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