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20060418: GOES update

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Topic: REMINDER GOES-12 East/West Maneuver April 18, 2006
Message Issued: April 17, 2006, 1445 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 and GOES-10
Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-10 Imager Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 18, 2006  1436 UTC

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Details:

A GOES-12 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 2055 UTC. For National Weather Service
operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, April 20,
2006.  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 April 18, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to
support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-10 Full
Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-12 outage during the
maneuver.*)

GOES-12 Maneuver Schedule starts at 1436 UTC on April 18, 2006.
(Southern Hemisphere Scan at 1439 UTC is canceled)

From 1445 UTC through 1844 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and Soundings.

From 1845 UTC through 1944 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging and Routine
Soundings.

*From 1945 UTC through 2114 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings*

**From 1930 UTC through 2129 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging**

From 18/2115 UTC through 19/0408 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including:
  * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45
  * CONUS Soundings at XX46

0409 UTC April 19 -- GOES-12 Routine Scan Operations Resume

Expect GOES-12 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.



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