[ldm-users] 20130709: GOES-12 to be decommissioned on August 16

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• Subject: [ldm-users] 20130709: GOES-12 to be decommissioned on August 16
• From: Unidata User Support <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:44:36 -0600

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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