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GOES West Station Keeping Maneuver, Tuesday, June 17th.
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GOES Satellite Operations FAQs | GOES Sounder FAQs
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GOES Program Overview from NESDIS.
Office of Meteorology Satellite Program
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GOES West Station Keeping Maneuver

A GOES-10 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 1813 UTC. There is no back-up day scheduled for this maneuver. On June 10, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations:
GOES-11 (GOES-West) Maneuver Schedule starts at 0147 UTC on June 17, 2008.
(Southern Hemisphere scan at 0151 UTC is canceled)

From 0200 UTC through 0729 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Routine Imaging and Soundings.

From 0730 UTC through 0759 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk imaging and routine soundings.

*From 0800 UTC through 1029 UTC -- No GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imaging or Soundings*

**From 0815 UTC through 1044 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging**

From 1030 UTC through 1859 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Post Maneuver Recovery Including: 
   * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at xx:00 and xx:30
   * CONUS Soundings at xx:01

1900 UTC June 18 -- GOES-10 Routine Scan Operations Resume
Expect GOES-10 imager and sounder gridding offsets for up to 6 hours following the maneuver.
 

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