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Topic: GOES-12 East/West Maneuver December 29/30, 2005 Message Issued: December 27, 2005, 1610 UTC (Re-sent 1800 UTC doe to mail problems) Satellites Impacted: GOES-12 and GOES-10 Products Impacted: GOES-12 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-10 Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: THURSDAY December 29, 2005 1903 UTC -------------------------- Details:A GOES-12 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Friday morning (Thursday evening for CONUS) on December 30, 2005 at 0100 UTC. For National Weather Service operations: There is no back-up date scheduled for this maneuver. This is an emergency maneuver in response to the recent North-South maneuver performed on 12/20/05.
On Thursday December 29, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-10 Full Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-12 outage during the maneuver.*)
GOES-12 Maneuver Schedule starts at 1903 UTC on Thursday December 29, 2005. (Southern Hemisphere Scan at 1909 UTC is canceled) From 29/1915 UTC through 30/0025 UTC -- GOES-12 Routine Imaging and Soundings. *From 30/0030 UTC through 30/0214 UTC -- No GOES-12 Imaging or Soundings* **From 30/0030 UTC through 30/0229 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging** From 30/0215 UTC through 30/0914 UTC -- GOES-12 Post Maneuver Recovery Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX15 and XX45 * CONUS Soundings at XX46 0915 UTC Friday December 30 -- GOES-12 Routine Scan Operations ResumeExpect GOES-12 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@xxxxxxxxSee 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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