GOES-10 East/West Maneuver October 21, 2003
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Message Issued: October 19, 2003, 2210 UTC
Satellites Impacted: GOES-10 and GOES-12
Products Impacted: GOES-10 Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-12 Imager Data
Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 21, 2003 0251 UTC

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Details:

A GOES-10 East-West Station Keeping maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, 
October 21, 2003 at 1015 UTC. The backup date for this maneuver is Thursday, 
October 23, 2003.

On October 21, the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support 
maneuver operations: (*PLEASE NOTE the scheduled GOES-12 Full
Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-10 outage during the maneuver.*)

GOES-10 Maneuver Schedule starts at 0251 UTC on October 21, 2003.

GOES-10 Southern Hemisphere scan at 0251 UTC is canceled.

>From 0300 UTC through 0959 UTC -- GOES-10 Routine Imaging and Soundings.

*From 1000 UTC through 1129 UTC -- No GOES-10 Imaging or Soundings*

**From 0945 UTC through 1144 UTC -- GOES-12 Full Disk Imaging**

>From 1130 UTC through 1829 UTC -- GOES-10 Post Maneuver Recovery Including:
   * Full Disk Images (19 minute scan) at XX00 and XX30
   * CONUS Soundings at XX01

1830 UTC October 21 -- 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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Posted to the NOAASIS 1800 UTC, 20 October 2003