Topic: GOES-10 Lunar Shadow 05/18-19/04
Message Issued: May 17, 2004, 1215 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 18, 2003 1500 UTC
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Details:
A lunar shadow will affect GOES-10 on May 18 and 19, 2003. The following
scan schedule will be implemented to offset the loss of GOES-10 data
during the shadow:
On May 18: GOES-10 Routine Imaging/Souding ops through 1459 UTC.
No GOES-10 imaging/soundings 1500 to 1644 UTC.
GOES-12 Full Disk operations 1445 to 1644 UTC.
Routine GOES-10 imaging/soundings resume at 1645 UTC.
On May 19: GOES-10 Routine Imaging/Souding ops through 0749 UTC.
No GOES-10 imaging/soundings 0750 to 0851 UTC.
GOES-12 Full Disk operations 0715 to 0914 UTC.
Routine GOES-10 imaging/soundings resume at 0915 UTC.
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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.