Meteosat -7 outage

[cycloneye]

Subject: GI: Meteosat-7 Data Outage!!
Topic: MET-7 Satellite Data Outage
Message Issued: 04/26/2006, 1320 UTC
Satellites Impacted: MET7
Products Impacted: MET-7 images, products, etc...
Date/Time of Initial Impact: 04/26/2006, 1000 UTC

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Details:
We are presently experiencing a MET7 data outage.


Reason: Essential Ground Maintenance
Length of outage: until 1000utc on 04/28/06

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Those who always look at the Eastern Atlantic pics haved noticed that they are old and here is why they haved not be updated.


http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/bulletins.html

[tailgater]

Let's hope they can fix it from Earth. But if they aren't I'm available on short notice and I'm good with my hands.

[Aquawind]

Let's hope they can fix it from Earth. But if they aren't I'm available on short notice and I'm good with my hands.

I wish the Miami radar was as reliable as the sattelites.. That thing is always down and it's usually not maintenance..

[HenkL]

We still have Meteosat-8 images (every 3 hours):
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IDDS-cgi/listImages.pl?m=bnw,a=0,sa=8,pr=BNW,f=1,c=IR_108,se=0,n=6,d=1,v=400,pp=0,t=200604271200#controls

Later this year the new MSG-2 will be named Meteosat-9 and placed at 0°. Meteosat-8 will function as a back-up from that moment.
I think I've read somewhere that Meteosat-7 will be moved to above the Indian Ocean, in order to replace Meteosat-5.