Topic: GOES-15 (GOES-West) North/South Maneuver scheduled for February 5, 2020

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Date/Time Issued: January 30, 2020 1230 UTC

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Product(s) or Data Impacted:M-B GOES-15M-B (GOES-West) Imager, Sounder, XRS and SXI Data

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Date/Time of Initial Impact: February 5, 2020 1730 UTC

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Date/Time of Expected End: M-BFebruary 6, 2020 0052 UTC

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Length of Outage: See table in detail.

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Details/Specifics of Change:

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A GOES-15 (GOES-West) North/South Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at 1845 UTC. The backup date for this maneuver is Tuesday, February 1, 2020.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.

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M-BOn February 5, 2020 the following schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations:

GOES-15 (GOES-West) North/South Maneuver Schedule begins at 1636 UTC on February 5, 2020.

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1730 UTC through 1844 UTC: GOES-15 (GOES-West) Imager and Sounder Product Outage

1730 UTC through 1844 UTC: GOES-15 (GOES-West) XRS and SXI Product Outage

1845 UTC: GOES-15 (GOES-West) Routine XRS and SXI Operations Resume

1845 UTC through 0051 UTC: GOES-15 (GOES-West) INR (Image Navigation Registration) Recovery Schedule.

0052 UTC: GOES-15 (GOES-West) Routine Imager and Sounder Scan Operations Resume.

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Please assure GOES-14 SXI and XRS are the primary forecasting instruments during this time frame.

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

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Web Site(s) for applicable information:

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

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

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