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Topic: REMINDER: GOES-12 East/West Maneuver April 13, 2004 Message Issued: April 12, 2004, 1310 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 and GOES-10 Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-10 Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: April 13, 2004 1404 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 2108 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, April 15, 2004. 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 April 13, 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 1404 UTC on April 13, 2004. GOES-12 Southern Hemisphere scan at 1409 UTC is canceled.
From 1415 UTC through 1914 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and Soundings.
From 1915 UTC through 2014 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk imaging with
soundings.
From 2015 UTC through 2044 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging
(Sounder scan at 2046 UTC is canceled) *From 2044 UTC through 2214 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings* **From 2030 UTC through 2229 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging**
From 13/2215 UTC through 14/0413 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 * Northern Hemisphere Extended replaces Full Disk at 0345 UTC due to KOZ 0415 UTC April 14 -- 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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