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Topic: GOES-12 (GOES-East) East/West Maneuver February 24, 2009 Message Issued: February 13, 2009, 1245 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: February 24, 2009 1636 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 (GOES-East) East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 2250 UTC. ** Due to the GOES-12 Eclipse schedule beginning February 26, 2009, there will be no backup date scheduled for this maneuver **br On February 24, 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 1636 UTC on February 24, 2009. (Southern Hemisphere Scan at 1639 UTC is canceled)
From 1645 UTC through 2214 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Imaging
and Soundings.
From 2215 UTC through 2242 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Full Disk Imaging
and Routine Soundings *From 2245 UTC through 2344 UTC -- No GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imaging or Soundings* **From 2230 UTC through 2359 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk Imaging**
From 24/2345 UTC through 25/0614 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Post Maneuver
Recovery Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 * Due to Keep Out Zone schedule, 0415 UTC and 0545 UTC will be Northern Hemisphere Extended * Due to Keep Out Zone schedule, 0445 UTC and 0515 UTC will be Northern Hemisphere 0615 UTC February 25 -- 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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