Explosion of SpaceX Starship at the Starbase launch facility in Texas
5-minute GOES-19 Near-Infrared (0.87 µm, 1.61 µm and 2.25 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images, from 0356-0426 UTC on 19 June [click to play MP4 animation]
The resulting large fire was hot enough to be flagged as a Processed Fire by the GOES-19 Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (FDCA), with a Fire Power value of 46.85 MW at 0401 UTC (below).
GOES-19 Near-Infrared (0.87 µm, 1.61 µm and 2.25 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images with an overlay (and cursor sample) of the FDCA Fire Power and Fire Mask at 0401 UTC on 19 June [click to enlarge]
5-minute GOES-19 Microphysics RGB images with an overlay of NGFS Fire Detection polygons, from 0356-0426 UTC on 19 June [click to play MP4 animation]
GOES-19 Microphysics RGB image with a cursor probe of a NGFS Fire Detection pixel at 0406 UTC on 19 June [click to enlarge]