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-------- Original Message -------- Topic: GOES-10 (GOES-South America) Decommissioning Message Issued: November 17, 2009, 1900 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-10 (GOES-South America) Products Impacted: All imager products and all services from GOES-10 Date/Time of Initial Impact: December 1, 2009 1230 UTC -------------------------- Details: GOES-10, located at 60W longitude, currently provides meteorological imagery for South America users. GOES-10 has reached its end-of-fuel life and requires decommissioning. NOAA plans to decommission GOES-10 on December 1, 2009. GOES-10 will be boosted to a disposal orbitand all GOES-10 user services will end on December 1, 2009, at 1230 UTC. Dedicated South America imaging will be interrupted at this time. NOAA
has considered GOES-10 replacement options and has developed plans for resuming dedicated South America coverage prior to June 2010. During the interruption period, GOES-12/EAST will continue to provide South America coverage every half hour during routine scan operations. Web Sites for more information: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/GOES/TEN/ http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/rt/goes10.php --------------------------- Contact Information: Brian Hughes Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8051 x106 Brian.Hughes@xxxxxxxx See 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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