This CIMSS blog post goes into more detail about the outage...
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/category/goes-14
Evan
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[mailto:ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gilbert Sebenste
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 2:44 PM
To: ldm-users
Subject: Re: [ldm-users] GOES data?
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Gerry Creager wrote:
> The following was just sent out, too... looks like the GOES-13 failure
> might be hard...
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> 572
> NOUS42 KWNO 241720
> ADMNFD
>
> SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST INTERNATIONAL ADMIN MESSAGE NWS NCEP CENTRAL
> OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1719Z MON SEP 24 2012
>
> NOAA/NESDIS IS PREPARING TO SWITCH TO GOES-14 TO PROVIDE GOES-EAST
> COVERAGE AT 1745Z TODAY. THE GOES-14 IMAGERY WILL BE TRANSMITTED
> THROUGH THE GOES-13 (GOES-EAST) SATELLITE FEED TO MINIMIZE IMPACT FROM
> THIS EMERGENCY CHANGE. THERE WILL BE VERY MINOR DIFFERENCES IN GOES-E
> PRODUCT SCHEDULE/TIMING FOLLOWING THIS TRANSITION. GOES-15 WILL REMAIN
> IN FULL DISK MODE FOR SOME TIME...TO ALLOW REDUNDANT COVERAGE WHILE WE
> VERIFY THE SUCCESS OF THIS CHANGE. RSO REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
> WHILE GOES-W REMAINS IN FULL DISK MODE.
NOAAport has them now, all appears well.
I hope G-13 isn't dead for good...we need all the redundancy up there we can
get. It was launched in 2006, and was operational on April 14, 2010. Not
exactly a long life. :-(
Gilbert
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