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.