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Topic: GOES-12 East/West Maneuver April 18, 2006 Message Issued: April 10, 2006, 1515 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 18, 2006 1436 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 2055 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, April 20, 2006. 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 18, 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 1436 UTC on April 18, 2006. (Southern Hemisphere Scan at 1439 UTC is canceled)
From 1445 UTC through 1844 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and Soundings.
From 1845 UTC through 1944 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging and Routine
Soundings. *From 1945 UTC through 2114 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings* **From 1930 UTC through 2129 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging**
From 18/2115 UTC through 19/0408 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 0409 UTC April 19 -- 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. ============================================================================== To unsubscribe nws-changes, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing-list-delete-form.html ==============================================================================
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