Satellite Operations Updates - Total Operational Weather Readiness - Satellites (TOWR-S)
GOES-West Operational Interleave of GOES-17 and GOES-18 Ends November 16th, 2022
November 14, 2022
Overview
Beginning Wednesday, November 16th 2022 at around 1700Z, the second operational interleave of GOES-17 and GOES-18 will conclude. The interleave has entailed populating the operational GOES-17 GRB (GOES Rebroadcast) service with an “interleave” of GOES-18 ABI data (replacing the GOES-17 ABI data), and GOES-17 GLM and space weather data. This has also provided GOES-18 imagery from the Satellite Broadcast Network.
GOES-18 is located in the West orbital slot (137.0 degrees West), 0.3 degrees from GOES-17 (at 137.3 degrees West). The interleave that started on October 13th, 2022 and which concludes November 16th, has provided early access to GOES-18 ABI imagery prior to the GOES-West Operations declaration coming on January 4th, 2023. The conclusion of the interleave will take place regardless of any Critical Weather Day declaration. At the conclusion of the interleave, GOES-17 ABI imagery and non-ABI data (including Level-2 products delivered via PDA), will be unavailable for approximately 20 minutes.
Additional details are provided in this NESDIS message and in this NWS SCN (the dates for the interleave periods mentioned in the SCN are now outdated, superseded by the dates listed above). More details on the GOES-R series transition to operations are at this OSPO link. Please contact the team via NWSChat (towr-s room) or via email Lee Byerle (lee.byerle@noaa.gov) if we can provide more information.
- 2023 Satellite Operation Communications
- 2022 Satellite Operation Communications
- 2021 Satellite Operation Communications
- 2020 Satellite Operation Communications
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- Loop Heat Pipe Anomaly Impacts on GOES ABI Band 15 [August 14, 2020]
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- Loop Heat Pipe Anomaly Impacts on GOES-17 ABI Band 10 [July 29, 2020]
- Loop Heat Pipe Anomaly Impacts on GOES-17 ABI Bands 12 & 16 [July 24, 2020]
- GOES-17 Cooling System Impacts Update [July 22, 2020]
- GOES-17 Mode 3 Cooling Timeline Operations [April 3, 2020]
- GOES-17 Cooling System Impacts Update [April 3, 2020]
- Upcoming Deactivation of GOES-15 Operations and Products [February 27, 2020]
- GOES-W Scan Strategy Testing [February 18, 2020]
- GOES-17 Cooling System Impacts Update [February 5, 2020]
- 2019 Satellite Operation Communications
- GOES-W Scan Strategy Testing [December 9, 2019]
- Mode 6: GOES-E/W ABI Operational Flex Mode Transition to 10 Minute Cycle [March 29, 2019]
- GOES-W Yaw Flip Data Outage [March 27, 2019]
- GOES-R Satellite Series: Upcoming ABI Mode 6 Testing [February 19, 2019]
- GOES-R Satellite Series Mode 6 Testing and GOES-17 Imagery Anomalies [February 7, 2019]
- GOES-17 ABI Mode 6 Testing [January 25, 2019]
- GOES-17 Cooling System Impacts Update [January 17, 2019]
- 2017 Satellite Operation Communications