Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second images from GOES-16 (GOES-East) ABI spectral bands 01-16, in addition to a Rocket Plume RGB (above) — which displayed visible reflectance and/or thermal signatures of the NASA Artemis Space Launch System rocket booster (as it moved quickly northeastward) and its low-altitude launch condensation cloud (as it drifted... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above), which displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster as the Crew-5 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 16:00:57 UTC on... Read More
GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Sectors provided 30-second GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images (above) that revealed thermal signatures of the SpaceX launch of the SARah-1 Mission from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California at 14:19:00 UTC on 18 June... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above) displayed thermal signatures of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster as the Crew-4 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 27 April 2022. The low-altitude rocket condensation cloud was also evident, moving... Read More
