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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

GOES 13 is Broadcasting EMWIN Data

GOES 13 is now broadcasting EMWIN data.  Here is the latest update.
GOES-13, at 75 degrees West, will return to GOES-East operations on Thursday, June 6, 2013, at approximately 1534 -1545 UTC (first image at 1545 UTC). Derived products from GOES-13 will begin immediately following the switchover.

All GOES direct readout services (DCS, LRIT, EMWIN, etc.) except SAR were switched over to GOES-13 today, June 4, 2013. Specifically, GOES DCS services were switched back to GOES-13 on June 4, 2013, at 1530 UTC.

GOES DCS has no issues and there has been no outage to the communications packages.