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Topic: GOES-12 East/West Maneuver April 15, 2004 Message Issued: April 13, 2004, 1610 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 15, 2004 1404 UTC -------------------------- Details: *This maneuver was rescheduled from April 13, 2004 by NWS due to severe weather threat across Mid-Atlantic* A GOES-12 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Thursday, April 15, 2004 at 2108 UTC. There is no back up day for this maneuver. On April 15, 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 15, 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 15/2215 UTC through 16/0413 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 16 -- 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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