![1-minute images from all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-17 [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/11/vbg_b09-20201121_171925.png)
1-minute images from all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-17 [click to play animation | MP4]
1-minute
Mesoscale Domain Sector images from all 16
ABI spectral bands of GOES-17
(GOES-West) showed signatures of the launch of a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (carrying the Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich satellite) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on
21 November 2020. During the first few minutes post-launch, arcing rapidly northeastward then eastward was the thermal signature of air that was superheated by the rocket exhaust, evident in all of the Near-Infrared bands (3-6) and most of the Infrared bands (7-15) — in addition to a separate signature of the low/mid-altitude booster rocket condensation cloud that was seen in all of the Infrared bands (drifting more slowly eastward, away from the launch site).
A 16-panel display of all GOES-17 ABI spectral bands during the first 11 minutes after launch is shown below.
![16-panel display of all GOES-17 ABI spectral bands, 1716-1728 UTC [click to play animation | MP4]](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2020/11/vbg_16p-20201121_171925.png)
16-panel display of all GOES-17 ABI spectral bands, 1716-1728 UTC [click to play animation | MP4]