Topic: Administrative, GOES-13 North/South Maneuver, November 12, 2008
Message Issued: November 12, 2008, 0200 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-13
Products Impacted: Any experimental products from GOES-13, and users obtaining
GOES-13 directly from the satellite.
Date/Time of Initial Impact: November 12, 2008 0700 UTC
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Details:
A GOES-13 North/South Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Wednesday,
November 12, 2008 at 0817 UTC. There is no back-up date for this maneuver.
Following this maneuver, GOES-13 may be placed back into storage mode. OSO/SOCC
engineers are still determining the final schedule to place GOES-13 back into
storage.
On November 12, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations:
GOES-13 Maneuver Schedule starts at 0700 UTC on November 12, 2008.
*From 0700 UTC through 1014 UTC -- No GOES-13 Imaging or Soundings*
From 1015 UTC through about 1934 UTC -- GOES-13 Post Maneuver Recovery Including:
* Short Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45
* SE N. Hemisphere Soundings at XX46
1945 UTC November 12 -- GOES-13 Routine Scan Operations Resume. GOES-13 may be
placed back into storage mode following this maneuver, engineers are still
determining a final storage schedule as a result of the analysis of the
spacecraft following maneuver.
If routine scan operations resume, expect GOES-13 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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