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Topic: GOES-12 East/West Maneuver October 14, 2003 Message Issued: Occtober 1, 2003, 1145 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-10 and GOES-12 Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-10 Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 14, 2003 1834 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 1900 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, October 16, 2003. 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 October 14, 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 1250 UTC on October 14, 2003. GOES-12 Southern Hemisphere scan at 1309 UTC is canceled.
From 1315 UTC through 1814 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and
Soundings.
GOES-12 Short Full Disk (19 minute) scan at 1815 UTC.
*From 1834 UTC through 2014 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings* **From 1830 UTC through 2029 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging**
From 2015 UTC through 15/0244 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 0245 UTC October 15 -- GOES-12 Routine Scan Operations Resume Expect GOES-12 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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