Topic: GOES-11 (GOES-West) East/West Maneuver is scheduled for October 25, 2011

Date/Time Issued: October 24, 2011 1530 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imager and Sounder Data and GOES-13 (GOES-East) Imager Data

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 25, 2011 0547 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: October 25, 2011 2100 UTC

Length of Event: See table in detail.

Details/Specifics of Change:
A GOES-11 (GOES-West) East/West Station Keeping Maneuver will be performed on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at 1220 UTC.

On October 25, 2011 the following exclusive schedule will be employed to support maneuver operations.
Please note: the scheduled GOES-13 (GOES-East) Full Disk scan period to support the primary GOES-11 (GOES-West) outage during the maneuver.

GOES-11 (GOES-West) Maneuver Schedule begins at 0547 UTC on October 25, 2011.
S. Hemisphere scan at 0551 UTC is canceled.

From 0600 UTC through 1159 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Routine Imaging and Soundings.

From 1100 UTC through 1129 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Full Disk (30 minute) Imaging.

From 1130 UTC through 1151 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Routine Imaging and Soundings.

From 1200 UTC through 1329 UTC -- No GOES-11 (GOES-West) Imaging or Soundings.

From 1145 UTC through 1344 UTC -- GOES-13 (GOES-East) Full Disk (30 minute) Imaging.

From 1330 UTC through 2059 UTC -- INR (Image Navigation Registration) Recovery Schedule Including:
* Full Disk scans (19 minutes scan) occur at XX00 and XX30.
* CONUS soundings occur at minutes XX01

2100 UTC -- GOES-11 (GOES-West) Routine Scan Operations Resume.