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To: Brian Hughes <Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx> Topic: GOES-12 North/South Maneuver December 4, 2007 Message Issued: November 21, 2007, 1345 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 and GOES-11 Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-11 Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 4, 2007 1136 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 North-South Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 1756 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, December 6, 2007. 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 December 4, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-11 Full Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-12 outage during the maneuver.*) GOES-12 Maneuver Schedule starts at 1136 UTC on December 4, 2007. (Southern Hemisphere Scan at 1139 UTC is canceled)
From 1145 UTC through 1644 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and Soundings.
From 1645 UTC through 1714 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging and Routine
Soundings. *From 1715 UTC through 1944 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings* **From 1700 UTC through 1959 UTC -- GOES-11 Full Disk Imaging**
From 4/1945 UTC through 5/0314 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 0315 UTC December 5 -- 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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