Subject: Administrative, GOES-11 (GOES-West) E/W Maneuver, 1/13/09, Topic: GOES-11 (GOES-West) East/West Maneuver, January 13, 2009 Message Issued: January 6, 2009, 1800 UTC Satellites Impacted: GOES-11 (GOES-West) and GOES-12 (GOES-East) Products Impacted: GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-12 (GOES-East) Imager Data Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 13, 2009 0547 UTC -------------------------- Details: A GOES-11 (GOES-West) East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 1100 UTC. The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, January 15, 2009. 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 13, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-12 (GOES-East) Full Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-11 (GOES-West) outage during the maneuver.*) GOES-11 (GOES-West) Maneuver Schedule starts at 0547 UTC on January 13, 2009. (Southern Hemisphere scan at 0551 UTC is canceled) >From 0600 UTC through 1041 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Routine Imaging and Soundings. *From 1041 UTC through 1159 UTC -- No GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imaging or Soundings* **From 1015 UTC through 1214 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk (30 minute) Imaging** >From 1200 UTC through 1859 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Post Maneuver Recovery Including: * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX00 and XX30 * CONUS Soundings at XX01 1900 UTC January 13 -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Routine Scan Operations Resume Expect GOES-11 (GOES-West) imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours following the maneuver. --------------------------- Contact Information: Brian Hughes Satellite Services Division NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD 301-763-8051 x106 Brian.Hughes@noaa.gov 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.