POSTPONED: The GOES-15 (GOES-West) East/West Station Keeping Maneuver scheduled for Thursday, June 7, 2018 has been rescheduled for Tuesday, June 12, 2018.M-B There will be no new backup date.


Topic: GOES-15 (GOES-West) East/West Station Keeping Maneuver scheduled for June 7, 2018


Date/Time Issued: June 6, 2018 M-B2030 UTC


Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-15 (GOES-West) Imager and Sounder Products


Date/Time of Initial Impact: June 7, 2018 M-B1245 UTC


Date/Time of Expected End: June 7, 2018 M-B1259 UTC


Length of Outage: See table in detail.


Details/Specifics of Change:

A GOES-15 (GOES-West) East/West Station Keeping Maneuver will be performed on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 1245 UTC.M-B The backup date for this maneuver is Tuesday, June 12, 2018. If NWS Regions have any operational concerns, please contact the NCEP SDM at (301) 683-1500 at least 6 hours prior to the maneuver time.


On June 7, 2018 the following schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations for GOES-15 (GOES-West):


1245 UTC: M-BGOES-15 (GOES-West) East/West Maneuver Schedule begins

1246 UTC - 1259 UTC: M-BGOES-15 (GOES-West) Sounder Product Outage

1245 UTC - 1259 UTC: M-BGOES-15 (GOES-West) Imager Product Outage

1300 UTC: M-BGOES-15 (GOES-West) Routine Imager and Sounder Scan Operations Resume


There will be no recovery schedule for this maneuver.


Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301)817-3880


Web Site(s) for applicable information:

See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html M-Bfor this and other satellite related messages.

See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/schedules.html M-Bfor full GOES scanning schedules and scan sectors.


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