20031229: GOES maneuvers-

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• Subject: 20031229: GOES maneuvers-
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:13:43 -0700

Topic: GOES-10 East/West Maneuver January 6, 2004
Message Issued: December 23, 2003, 1745 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-10 and GOES-12
Products Impacted: GOES-10 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-12 Imager
Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 6, 2004 0251 UTC

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Details:

A GOES-10 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on
Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 1015 UTC. For National Weather Service
operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, January 8,
2004.  If the NWS regions have any operational concerns, please contact
the NCEP SDM (301-763-8298) at least 6.5 hours prior to the maneuver
time.

On January 6, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to
support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-12 Full
Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-10 outage during the
maneuver.*)

GOES-10 Maneuver Schedule starts at 0251 UTC on January 6, 2004.

GOES-10 Southern Hemisphere scan at 0251 UTC is canceled.

From 0300 UTC through 0959 UTC -- GOES-10 Routine Imaging and Soundings.

*From 1000 UTC through 1129 UTC -- No GOES-10 Imaging or Soundings*

**From 0945 UTC through 1144 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging**

From 1130 UTC through 1829 UTC -- GOES-10 Post Maneuver Recovery

Including:
  * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX00 and XX30
  * CONUS Soundings at XX01

1830 UTC January 6 -- GOES-10 Routine Scan Operations Resume

Expect GOES-10 imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours
following the maneuver.

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Contact Information:
Brian Hughes
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
301-763-8051 x106
Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx

See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html  for this and other
satellite related messages.
See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov for full GOES scanning schedules.