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Topic: GOES-12 (GOES-East) North/South Maneuver December 15, 2009 Message Issued: December 08, 2009, 1900 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: December 15, 2009 1006 UTC ------------------------------------ Details:A GOES-12 (GOES-East) North-South Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 1618 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, December 17, 2009. 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 Tuesday, December 15, 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 1006 UTC on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.
Southern Hemisphere Scan at 15/1009 UTC is canceled.
From 15/1015 UTC through 15/1535 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Imaging and Soundings.
*From 15/1536 UTC through 15/1744 UTC -- No GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imaging or Soundings*
**From 15/1530 UTC through 15/1759 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk Imaging**
From 15/1745 UTC through 16/0114 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Post Maneuver Recovery Including:
* Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 0115 UTC December 17 -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Scan Operations ResumeExpect GOES-12 (GOES-East) imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours following the maneuver.
-------------------------------------- Contact Information: Tom Renkevens / Brian Hughes Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8051 x109 / x106 Thomas.Renkevens@xxxxxxxx Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxxSee 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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