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20130816: GOES-12 data terminated at 20130815.2343 UTC



Users of LDM/IDD UNIWISC imagery:

Yesterday evening at 23:43 UTC the GOES-12 (aka GOES-M, formerly GOES-East)
imager was turned off.  GOES-12 was officially decommissioned today, 20130816.
The impacts of the decommissioning include:

- loss of GOES-South scans in Unidata-Wisconsin (LDM/IDD datastream
  UNIWISC, aka MCIDAS) east image sectors

- cessation of ADDE access to GOES-South imagery

GOES-12 ably served the atmospheric and space science communities
since it began operations on April 1, 2003.

Unidata will be repurposing the equipment used to ingest and serve
GOES-12 data in the near future.

The following is the final announcement we received regarding the
decommissioning of GOES-12:

  Date:    Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:01:21 EDT
  From:    Natalia Donoho - NOAA Federal <address@hidden>
  Subject: Administrative, Reminder and Update: Notification of GOES-12
           (GOES-South America) Decommissioning Date, Issued: August 13, 2013,
           1600 UTC
  
  Update: Status of GOES-12  (GOES-South America) Sounder and Imager; GOES-12
  EMWIN Broadcast and GOES-Services (GOES-DCS, LRIT, SARSAT and EMWIN).
  
  Topic: Notification of GOES-12 (GOES-South America) Decommissioning
  
  Date/Time Issued: August 13, 2013 1600 UTC
  
  Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-12, All Instruments
  
  Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 16, 2013
  
  Date/Time of Expected End:  N/A
  
  Length of Outage:  N/A
  
  Details/Specifics of Change: GOES-12 is scheduled to be decommissioned on
  August 16, 2013.
  
  Update:
  GOES-12 Sounder electronics were turned off at 1100 UTC on August
  13, 2013, which will be the conclusion of all data products from the
  GOES-12 Sounder.

  The uplink of EMWIN data to GOES-12 will be turned off at 1400 UTC on
  August 15, 2013

  All the services (LRIT, EMWIN, DCS, SARSAT) will be stopped permanently
  in preparation for GOES-12 End-of-Life at 2300 UTC on August 15, 2013

  The GOES-12 Imager data will be turned off at approximately 2330 UTC
  on August 15, 2013.

  GOES-12 de-orbit maneuvers are scheduled at 0100 UTC and 1300 UTC on
  August 16, 2013.

  GOES-12 was launched on July 23, 2001, and it has supported South
  America at 60�W since May 2010. The spacecraft engineering team
  in the The Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) was
  granted approval from NESDIS headquarters to proceed with plans to
  decommission the spacecraft after evaluating its health and ability
  to provide meaningful data to the scientific and weather community.

  Contact Information for Further Information:  ESPC Operations at
  address@hidden at (301) 817-3880

  Web Site(s) for applicable information: See
  http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html

  for this and other satellite related messages.  See
  
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=12for

  GOES-12 spacecraft status summary.  See
  http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/GOES/SA/ for GOES-12 Information

The UW/SSEC/CIMSS blog site should also be of interest to end-users:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/

Best regards,

Unidata User Support
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