20011025: GOES maneuver

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• Subject: 20011025: GOES maneuver
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:37:55 -0600

A GOES-10 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on
Tuesday, November 06, 2001 at 0656 UTC. For National Weather Service
operations: The backup date, and last window of opportunity (final date)
for this maneuver is Thursday, November 08, 2001.  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 November 06, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to
support maneuver operations:
(*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-8 Full Disk scan period to support the
primary GOES-10 outage during the maneuver.*)

Maneuver Schedule starts at 0051 UTC on November 06, 2001.

Southern Hemisphere scan at 0052 UTC is canceled.

From 0100 UTC through 0644 UTC -- GOES-10 Routine Imaging and Soundings

(Sounding at 0624 UTC is abbreviated)

*From 0645 UTC through 0759 UTC -- No GOES-10 Imaging or Soundings*

**From 0645 UTC through 0814 UTC -- GOES-8 Full Disk Imaging**

From 0800 UTC through 1459 UTC -- GOES-10 Post Maneuver Recovery

Including:
  Abbreviated Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX00
  Northern Hemisphere Images at XX30
  CONUS Soundings at XX01

1500 UTC -- GOES-10 Routine Scan Operations Resume

Expect GOES-10 imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to six hours
following the maneuver.

Any postponement may cause changes to this schedule.

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Tom Renkevens
Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB)
Satellite Services Division (SSD)
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD
thomas.renkevens@xxxxxxxx