Topic: GOES-12 East/West Maneuver February 3, 2004
Message Issued: February 02, 2004, 1520 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-10 and GOES-12
Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-10 Imager
Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: February 3, 2004, 1034 UTC
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Details:
Reminder for GOES-12 East/West Station Keeping Maneuver on February 03,
2004.
A GOES-12 East/West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on
Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 1711 UTC. For National Weather Service
operations: the backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, February 5.
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 February 3, 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 1034 UTC on February 3, 2004.
GOES-12 Southern Hemisphere scan at 1039 UTC is canceled.
From 1045 UTC through 1544 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and
Soundings.
From 1547 UTC through 1644 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging.
From 1645 UTC through 1700 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and
Soundings.
(Sounding at 1646 UTC is canceled)
*From 1700 UTC through 1815 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings*
**From 1700 UTC through 1829 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging**
From 03/1815 UTC through 04/0113 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery
Including:
* Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45
* CONUS Soundings at XX46
0115 UTC February 4 -- GOES-12 Routine Scan Operations Resume
Expect GOES-12 imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours
following the maneuver.
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Contact Information:
Brian Hughes / Tom Renkevens
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
301-763-8051 x106 / x109
Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx
Thomas.Renkevens@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.