Subject: Administrative, Reminder of GOES-12 (GOES-East) E/W This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090002030602050503090303 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic: Reminder of GOES-12 (GOES-East) East/West Maneuver October 26-27, 2009 Message Issued: October 26, 2009, 1415 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 (GOES-East) and GOES-11 (GOES-West) Products Impacted: GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 26, 2009 2236 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-12 (GOES-East) East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 0400 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, October 29, 2009. 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 Monday, October 26, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-12 (GOES-East) outage during the maneuver.*) GOES-12 (GOES-East) Maneuver Schedule starts at 2236 UTC on Monday, October 26, 2009. (Southern Hemisphere Scan at 26/2239 UTC is canceled) >From 26/2245 UTC through 27/0314 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Imaging and Soundings. The 27/0315 UTC Northern Hemisphere Extended will be replaced by a Full disk image. *From 27/0345 UTC through 27/0514 UTC -- No GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imaging or Soundings* **From 27/0330 UTC through 27/0529 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk Imaging** >From 27/0515 UTC through 27/1214 UTC -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Post Maneuver Recovery Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 1215 UTC October 27 -- GOES-12 (GOES-East) Routine Scan Operations Resume Expect GOES-12 (GOES-East) imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours following the maneuver. --------------------------- Contact Information: Brian Hughes Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8051 x106 Brian.Hughes@noaa.gov 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. --------------090002030602050503090303 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="Brian_Hughes.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Brian_Hughes.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Brian Hughes n:Hughes;Brian org:Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution;Satellite Services Division adr:Room 607;;5200 Auth Road, E/SP2;Camp Springs;MD;20746;USA email;internet:Brian.Hughes@noaa.gov title:Physical Scientist and User Services Coordinator tel;work:(301) 763-8051 x106 tel;fax:(301) 763-8131 tel;cell:(202) 409-8629 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ version:2.1 end:vcard --------------090002030602050503090303--