Topic: GOES-15 (GOES-West) East/West Station Keeping Maneuver scheduled for March 27, 2018

Date/Time Issued: March 15, 2018 M-B1350 UTC

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 27, 2018 1245 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: March 27, 2018 1259 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 Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 1245 UTC. The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, March 29, 2018.M-B 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 March 27, 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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