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Over the years, VIIRS TEB observations have been used to generate several data products (e.g., surface\/cloud\/atmospheric temperatures, cloud top altitude, and water vapor properties). The VIIRS TEB calibration uses a quadratic algorithm and is referenced to an on-board blackbody with temperature measurements traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology standard. This manuscript provides an overview of the VIIRS instrument operations and TEB calibration activities and algorithms used in the level 1B data and describes the TEB on-orbit performance for S-NPP VIIRS. The 10-year on-orbit performance of the S-NPP VIIRS TEB has generally been stable, and the degradations in the S-NPP TEB detector responses are minor after a decade in orbit. The noise characterization performance repeatedly meets the design requirements for all TEB detectors as well. On-orbit changes in the TEB response-versus-scan-angle, based on pitch maneuver observations, have been demonstrated to be extremely small. 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