Subject: Administrative, GOES-12 and GOES-10 Lunar Shadow 6/23/09
Topic: GOES-12 and GOES-10 Lunar Shadow - June 23 and 24, 2009
Message Issued: June 16, 2009, 1200 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 (GOES-East) and GOES-10 (GOES South
America)
Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-10
Imager Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 23, 2009  0134 UTC
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Details:

GOES-12 will go into a Lunar Shadow on 6/24/09 (J175) from 0214Z
until 0247Z.  Due to
the Lunar Shadow, the following images and soundings will need to be
canceled in order to accommodate commanding.

Images
0145Z - N. Hemisphere Extended replaced by N. Hemisphere
0201Z - CONUS
0209Z - S. Hemisphere
0215Z - N. Hemisphere Extended
0231Z - CONUS
0239Z - S. Hemisphere
0245Z - Full Disk

Soundings
0220Z - North Atlantic
0246Z - CONUS

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GOES-10 will go into a Lunar Shadow on 6/23/09 (J174) from 0134Z
until 0205Z.  Due to
the Lunar Shadow, the following images will need to be canceled in
order to
accommodate commanding.

Images
0115Z - South America
0127Z - South America
0145Z - South America
0215Z - South America
0227Z - South America



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Contact Information:
Brian Hughes
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
301-763-8051 x106
Brian.Hughes@noaa.gov

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