1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands (above) displayed signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 0859 UTC on 14 January 2024. Either a reflectance signature or a warm thermal signature of the Stage 1 rocket booster was... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands plus a Rocket Plume RGB (above) — which displayed signatures of the SpaceX Starship 2 rocket that was launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 13:02:53 UTC on 18 November 2023. The Stage 1 rocket booster condensation... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided GOES-16 (GOES-East) images at 30-second intervals from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands (above), which displayed the northeast-moving bright reflectance and/or the warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster as the Crew-7 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 0727... Read More
5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above) displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket booster as the ViaSat-3 Americas Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 0025 UTC on 01 May (8:25 PM EST on 30... Read More
