Update #2: All NOAA-20 OMPS Nadir Mapper (NM) SDRs and EDRs (V8TOz & V8TOS) products are approved for operational use and the NCCF/PDA subscriptions for these products will be enabled at 19:00 UTC, April 11, 2025. Direct Broadcast (DB) users can use the equivalent OMPS NM Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) LEO products for operations.


OMPS Nadir Profiler (NP) SDRs and EDRs (V8Pro) will be enabled once additional OMPS SDR Look Up Tables (LUTs) are ingested into operations next week.


Update #1: As of April 2, 2025 at 17:03 UTC, NOAA-20 OMPS transitioned into Safe Hold mode. Engineering was able to recover it back to a nominal status on April 2, 2025 at 20:36Z. All PDA OPS subscriptions for all NOAA-20 OMPS products have been disabled until an analysis is conducted by Cal/Val teams to be cleared for use in operations.

Topic: NOAA-20 Drag Make-Up Maneuver (DMU) scheduled for April 02, 2025

Date/Time Issued: April 11, 2025 1904Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  All NOAA-20 Sensor Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 02, 2025 1653Z

Date/Time of Expected End: April 02, 2025 1940Z

Length of Outage:  See Details.

Details/Specifics: On April 02, 2025 17:19:00Z,
NOAA-20 will perform a 5.0 second propulsive Drag Makeup Maneuver (DMU)
to maintain Mean Local Time of the Ascending Node while controlling Repeating Ground Track box.
The following observatory systems will be affected on April 02, 2025:

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