GOES-17 Transition to Operations Schedule

GOES-17 will go into operations as the GOES-West satellite during the week of January 7th, 2019.  A notification of the exact date will be sent closer to this time. The GOES-15 LRIT broadcast will be disabled at the same time.

GOES-17 and GOES-15 will operate in tandem from their respective locations of 137.2 degrees west and 128 degrees west for six months.

GOES -13/14/15/16 Fall 2018 Solar RFI

To: Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) Customers

From: GISC/RTH Washington Data Management

Subject: GOES-13/14/15/16 Fall 2018 Solar RFI

NESDIS has provided the following information concerning the potential for outages of the GOES data stream, including EMWIN.

The potential for solar radio frequency interference (RFI) with a satellite downlink circuit will occur whenever the Sun passes into the beam of the ground station receiving antenna. The Wallops and Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Stations (CDAs) and Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC) receiving antennas may experience periods of Solar RFI as predicted below. Solar RFI can cause loss of telemetry lock and command capability.

Solar RFI Predicted Times and Impacts for Fall 2018:

SPACECRAFT //
DATE TIME(UTC) STATION OP-IMPACT
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GOES-13 //
04 OCT-11 OCT 1532-1544 WALLOPS SD,GVAR,T&C,EMWIN,LRIT,
05 OCT-12 OCT 1638-1649 SUITLAND WEFAX,DCS,DCPR,SAR,MDL
GOES-14 //
05 OCT-12 OCT 1854-1906 WALLOPS T&C,EMWIN,MDL
05 OCT-12 OCT 1853-1905 SUITLAND
GOES-15 //
04 OCT-11 OCT 2111-2122 WALLOPS SD,GVAR,T&C,EMWIN,LRIT,
04 OCT-11 OCT 2111-2122 SUITLAND WEFAX,DCS,DCPR,SAR,MDL
11 OCT-18 OCT 2042-2054 FAIRBANKS
GOES-16 //
04 OCT-11 OCT 1644-1656 WALLOPS RDL,GRB,T&C,HRIT/EMWIN,
05 OCT-12 OCT 1643-1655 SUITLAND DCPC,SAR
05 OCT-12 OCT 1641-1653 FAIRMONT

Source: Direct Broadcast Manager, NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO/SPSD

Questions or comments may be directed to:
nws.emwin.support@noaa.gov

GOES-17 and GOES-15 Transition Plan

Below is information on the GOES West Transition plan. This should be updated on the GOES-R website as well. There will be two drifts occurring to separate GOES-15 and GOES-17. During GOES-15's drift period, the LRIT transponder will still broadcast during it's drift, as NESDIS expects no outages to occur. 

For GOES-17 HRIT/EMWIN, the transponder will be activated on November 15th (exact time during day TBD) and there will be a GOES West stream available. Product content will be the following:

VCID 0 - Administrative Text

VCID 1 - Mesoscale Imagery, band 2 only for both sectors available every 15 minutes

VCID 2 - GOES-17 Band 2 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes

VCID 7 - GOES-17 Band 7 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes

VCID 8 - GOES-17 Band 8 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes

VCID 9 - GOES-17 Band 9 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes  

VCID 13 - GOES-17 Band 13 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes    

VCID 14 - GOES-17 Band 14 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes     

VCID 15 - GOES-17 Band 15 Full Disk 2km resolution available every 30 minutes       

VCID 16 - GOES-16 Band 13 Full Disk 4km resolution available every 30 minutes

VCID 20 - EMWIN Priority 1 & 2 data (non-operational but available if pushed by NWS)

VCID 22 - EMWIN Priority 3 & 4 data (non-operational but available if pushed by NWS)

VCID 23 - NWS Tropical Forecast Discussions

VCID 24 - NHC Maritime Products for GOES-17 footprint only

VCID 31 - DCS Data

VCID 60 - Himawari-8 4km resolution IR, Water Vapor and Visual channels available once an hour

At this time, there will be no inclusion of GOES-17 level 2+ products. The LRIT broadcast will remain operational until GOES-17 is deemed GOES West. 

Setup for GoesTools

Here is a good write up on using GoesTools.

https://gist.github.com/lxe/c1756ca659c3b78414149a3ea723eae2#file-goes16-rtlsdr-md