Users of LDM/IDD UNIWISC imagery:
This morning we received notification (included below) that GOES-12
(aka GOES-M, formerly GOES-East) is scheduled to be decommissioned on
August 16, 2013. 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 has ably served the atmospheric and space science communities
since it began operations on April 1, 2003.
From: Natalia Donoho - NOAA Federal <natalia.donoho@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:01:01 -0400
Subject: Administrative: Notification of GOES-12 (GOES-South America)
Decommissioning Date, Issued: July 9, 2013, 1500 UTC
Topic: Notification of GOES-12 (GOES-South America) Decommissioning
Date/Time Issued: July 9, 2013 1500 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. GOES-12 was launched on July 23, 2001, and it has
supported South America at 60W 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
ESPCOperations@xxxxxxxx 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=12
for GOES-12 spacecraft status summary.
See
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/GOES/SA/
for GOES-12 Information
Best regards,
Unidata User Support
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