Topic: GOES-15 (GOES-West) SXI Outage for East-West Station Change Start

Date/Time Issued: M-BOctober 17, 2018 1530 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: M-BGOES-15 (GOES-West) SXI Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: M-BOctober 23, 2018 ~2020 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: M-BOctober 23, 2018 ~2050 UTC

Length of Outage: M-B30 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change: M-BThere will be an outage of GOES-15 SXI data due to the East/West Station Change Start on October 23, 2018 starting at approximately 2020 UTC for a duration of approximately 30 minutes. GOES-15 SXI will continue imaging while flagged. The maneuver epoch is 2030 UTC.

At the conclusion of the maneuver, GOES-15 SXI will continue imaging during the drift period. GOES-15 is scheduled to reach 128W on November 1, 2018.


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