At 1500 UTC today, the Set Point temperature on the cryocooler was re-set to a cooler temperature (the effect of the warmer Set Point temperature is discussed here: Bands 10 and 12 had more lines of missing data related to the warming of the satellite by the Sun). The cryocooler... Read More

During the current warm period for GOES-17, when the sun’s position leads to excessive heat build-up on GOES-17 because of the poorly-functioning Loop Heat Pipe, the Set Point temperature has been increased from 92.8 K. This change occurred on 11 April 2022 and it is scheduled to last for one... Read More

NOAA/NESDIS has modified the GOES-17 Mode 6 scanning schedule during times of increased data-outages related to the faulty Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) mechanism (Blog Post 1, 2, 3 on that subject;  see also here) on GOES-17.  (The OSPO Notification is here).  Between 0600 and 1200 UTC, Full Disk scans are... Read More

As of 19:45 UTC on August 8, 2019, the new Look-Up-Table (LUT) went into operations for use in the GOES-17 ABI Temperature Data Quality Flags (TDQF). These hotter thresholds are possible due to the recent implementation of the Predictive Calibration algorithm.  Note that the image also includes the percent good (and conditionally usable) values (flagged... Read More