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Topic: GOES-10 East/West Maneuver May 8, 2003
Message Issued: May 6, 2003, 1230 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-10 and GOES-12
Products Impacted: GOES-10 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-12 Imager
Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: May 8, 2003 1000 UTC
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Details:
A GOES-10 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on
Thursday, May 8, 2003 at 1054 UTC. **There is no back-up date planned
for this maneuver**
On May 8, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support
maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-12 Full Disk scan
period to support the primary GOES-10 outage during the maneuver.*)
Maneuver Schedule starts at 0451 UTC on May 8, 2003.
Southern Hemisphere scan at 0452 UTC is canceled.
From 0500 UTC through 0959 UTC -- GOES-10 Routine Imaging and Soundings
From 1000 UTC through 1029 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging with
Soundings (Sounding at 1024 UTC is abbreviated)
From 1030 UTC through 1044 UTC -- GOES-10 Routine Imaging
*From 1045 UTC through 1159 UTC -- No GOES-10 Imaging or Soundings*
**From 1045 UTC through 1214 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging**
From 1200 UTC through 1859 UTC -- GOES-10 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including:
Abbreviated Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX00
Northern Hemisphere Images at XX30
CONUS Soundings at XX01
1900 UTC May 8 -- GOES-10 Routine Scan Operations Resume
Expect GOES-10 imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours
following the maneuver.
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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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