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30-second images of the NASA/Boeing Starliner launch

By Scott Bachmeier •

Stepped sequence of 30-second GOES-16 images from all 16 ABI spectral bands, plus a Rocket Plume RGB; KXMR denotes the location of the Cape Kennedy rawinsonde launch site [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

30-second Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands along with a Rocket Plume RGB (above) displayed signatures of a Boeing Starliner’s Atlas V rocket booster that was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1552 UTC (11:52 AM EST) on 05 June 2024. The warm thermal signature of the rocket booster (moving rapidly to the northeast) and/or the relatively cold rocket condensation cloud (drifting slowly eastward just off the coast) were evident in all of the ABI spectral band images, as well as the Rocket Plume RGB imagery.

A larger-scale view of 30-second GOES-16 Rocket Plume RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below) spans an additional 2 minutes — showing the rocket booster signature extending even farther to the northeast.

30-second GOES-16 Rocket Plume RGB images (courtesy Tim Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS) [click to play MP4 animation]

30-second GOES-16 Rocket Plume RGB images (courtesy Tim Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS) [click to play MP4 animation]

Categories: Geo2Grid, GOES-16, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images, Rocket signatures