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.