Topic: S-NPP VIIRS Lunar Calibration Scheduled for June 2, 2020
Date/Time Issued: May 28, 2020 1442Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: S-NPP VIIRS Sensor Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 2, 2020 0042Z
Date/Time of Expected End: June 2, 2020 0047Z
Length of Outage: See Details.
Details/Specifics of change: June 2, 2020, S-NPP will perform a VIIRS lunar calibration centered at 00:44:42Z. VIIRS data will be impacted. The timeline of the events for this calibration is provided below.
The following observatory system(s) will be affected on June 2, 2020:
00:42:11Z – 00:47:11Z VIIRS encoder offset and gain will be set for Moon observation.