FYI--
Linda Miller
External Liaison Telephone: (303) 497-8646
UCAR/Unidata Program Center Fax: (303) 497-8690
P.O. Box 3000 E-mail: lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boulder, CO 80307-3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
GOES-8 / GOES-9 Full Disk Scanning Periods
Beginning 04 September 1996, GOES-9 will operate in full disk
mode during the GOES-8 eclipse period. Also, GOES-8 will
operate in full disk mode during the GOES-9 eclipse period.
This is in response to a NOAA/National Weather Service request
to provide full disk imagery from one satellite while the
other satellite is in a scheduled outage period greater than
one hour.
For the duration of this eclipse period (through October),
GOES-8 will be in full disk mode from 0745 through 1045 UTC.
GOES-9 will be in full disk mode from 0400 through 0645 UTC.
Normal scanning schedules will resume at the end of the
eclipse period.
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