The GOES-S satellite was launched (video) from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 22:02 UTC on 01 March 2018 — and after a period of post-launch testing and evaluation, it will become the operational GOES-West satellite positioned at 137º West longitude. Signatures of the rocket exhaust... Read More

A new RGB has been developed to highlight possible Rocket Plumes from the Advanced Baseline Imagers (ABI) imagery. Many Red-Green-Blue (RGB) composite image recipes can be applied to the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) ABI data. Owing to the new spectral bands, finer spatial resolutions and more applications, there are... Read More

<img class="thumbnail" src="https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/G16_VIS_NIR_FALCON_HEAVY_XMR_06FEB2018_380x1280_B215_2018037_204728_0003PANELS_00003.gif" alt="GOES-16 "Red" Visible (0.64 µm, top), Near-Infrared "Snow/Ice" (1.61 µm, middle) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, bottom) images, with plots of surface reports [click to play animation]” width=”640″ height=”480″> GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm, top), “Blue” Visible (0.47 µm, middle) and Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm,... Read More

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) revealed signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch at 01:27 UTC on 23 December 2017 (5:27 PM Pacific time on 22 December). The arrows on the 01:27:24 UTC images indicate the bright pixels on the 0.64 µm and 1.61... Read More