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The recent North-South GOES-8 Maneuver has resulted in the requirement for
an E-W maneuver SOON.
Sorry about the short notice.
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A GOES-8 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Friday,
January 07, 2000 at 0406 UTC. For NWS operations - This is the initial,
backup and final date for this maneuver. Postponement can not be
requested. 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 January 7th, 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-8 data outage):
GOES-8 E-W Station keeping Maneuver Schedule of Operations
Maneuver Schedule starts at 2306 UTC on January 6th.
>From 2314 UTC through 0314 UTC -- GOES-8 Routine Imaging
and Soundings
Except 2309 UTC Southern Hemisphere data is canceled.
>From 0315 UTC through 0344 UTC -- GOES-8 Full Disk Scanning
>From 0345 UTC through 0359 UTC - GOES-8 Routine Imaging and Soundings
Except at 0345 UTC the Extended Northern Hemisphere Image is replaced
with a
Northern Hemisphere image. Also, the 0420 UTC Sounding is
canceled.
>From 0400 UTC through 0514 UTC -- No GOES-8 Imaging or Soundings
*From 0400 UTC through 0529 UTC -- GOES-10 Full Disk Imaging*
>From 0515 UTC through 1214 UTC -- Abbreviated GOES-8 full disk
(19 minute scan) at XX45 and Northern Hemisphere Extended (NHE) imaging at
XX15, and CONUS coverage soundings only at XX46)
1215 UTC -- GOES-8 routine imager and sounding schedules
resume.
Expect GOES-8 imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6
hours following the maneuver time.
Steve Arnett
Satellite Analysis Branch
Satellite Services Division
NOAA/NESDIS
steve.arnett@xxxxxxxx
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