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Topic: GOES-12 (GOES-East) East/West Maneuver January 29, 2008 Message Issued: January 16, 2008, 1810 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 (GOES-East) and GOES-11 (GOES-West) Products Impacted: GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 29, 2008 1605 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 (GOES-East) East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 2209 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, January 31, 2008. 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 29, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-12 (GOES-East) outage during the maneuver.*) GOES-12 (GOES-East) Maneuver Schedule starts at 1605 UTC on January 29, 2008. (Southern Hemisphere Scan at 1609 UTC is canceled)
From 1615 UTC through 2114 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Imaging
and Soundings.
From 2115 UTC through 2144 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Full Disk Imaging
and Routine Soundings.
From 2145 UTC through 2159 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Imaging
and Soundings. *From 2200 UTC through 2314 UTC -- No GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imaging or Soundings* **From 2200 UTC through 2329 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk Imaging**
From 29/2315 UTC through 30/0614 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Post
Maneuver Recovery Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 0615 UTC January 30 -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Scan Operations Resume Expect GOES-12 (GOES-East) imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours following the maneuver. --------------------------- 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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