{"id":16830,"date":"2014-10-07T13:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2014-10-07T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:47:32","slug":"himawari-8-launched-from-tanegashima-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16830","title":{"rendered":"Himawari-8 Launched from Tanegashima Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/MTSAT_VIS_0514_07OCT2014.arrowtoggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/MTSAT_VIS_0514_07OCT2014.arrowtoggle.gif\" alt=\"MTSAT-2 0.73 \u00b5m visible channel image at 0514 UTC (click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>MTSAT-2 0.73 \u00b5m visible channel image at 0514 UTC<\/strong> (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Japanese Satellite Himawari-8 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kr5G9ET3NsU#t=31m00s\">successfully launched<\/a> from <a href=\"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;cid=16437365352927652980&amp;q=Tanegashima+Space+Center&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=&amp;ll=30.374834,130.957499&amp;spn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;t=m&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=us&amp;cid=16437365352927652980&amp;q=Tanegashima+Space+Center&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=&amp;ll=30.374834,130.957499&amp;spn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;t=m&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">southern Tanegashima Island<\/a> today at 05:16 UTC.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2014\/10\/japan-loft-himawari-8-satellite-h-iia\/\">NASA News Source<\/a>).  Is the plume from that launch visible in MTSAT imagery?  The visible imagery with a nominal time of 0514 UTC was actually scanning Tanegashima Island at 0519 UTC, and a plume, denoted by the yellow arrow above, is visible off the southern edge of the Island.  (The 0501 UTC image of the same scene, pre-launch, is <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/MTSAT_VIS_0501_07OCT2014.GIF\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Satellite Himawari-8 was successfully launched from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-mtsat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16844,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions\/16844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}