![\"GOES-16](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/171222_goes16_Visible_NearInfrared_ShortwaveInfrared_SpaceX_launch_anim.gif\")
<\/a>GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top),<\/em> Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m, middle)<\/em> and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, bottom)<\/em> images, with plots of 01 UTC surface observations [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/a><\/strong>), Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch at 01:27 UTC on 23 December 2017<\/strong> (5:27 PM Pacific time on 22 December<\/strong><\/a>). The arrows on the 01:27:24 UTC images<\/a><\/strong> indicate the bright pixels on the 0.64 \u00b5m and 1.61 \u00b5m images, as well as the warm thermal anomaly (black pixels)<\/em> on the 3.9 \u00b5m image. GOES-16 was scanning that exact location at 01:28:01 UTC.<\/p>\n The GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared signature was noted by a couple of NWS offices:<\/p>\n It looks like #GOESEast<\/a> (#GOES16<\/a>) captured the rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base earlier this evening. It shows up as a “hot spot” on the 3.90 micron channel. pic.twitter.com\/fstHI89SKv<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NWS La Crosse (@NWSLaCrosse) December 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n GOES16 Satellite imagery in the 3.9 micron band (infrared) easily detected the lauch of the #SpaceX<\/a> satellite from Vandenberg AFB. Although imaged at 5 min intervals, GOES16 just happened to image right after launch. Note area orange and yellow west of the coast line. #cawx<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qxf77jbhGj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NWS Hanford (@NWSHanford) December 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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![01:27:24 UTC images<\/a><\/strong> indicate the bright pixels on the 0.64 \u00b5m and 1.61 \u00b5m images, as well as the warm thermal anomaly (black pixels)<\/em> on the 3.9 \u00b5m image. GOES-16 was scanning that exact location at 01:28:01 UTC.<\/p>\nThe GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared signature was noted by a couple of NWS offices:<\/p>\n\nIt looks like #GOESEast<\/a> (#GOES16<\/a>) captured the rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base earlier this evening. It shows up as a “hot spot” on the 3.90 micron channel. pic.twitter.com\/fstHI89SKv<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 NWS La Crosse (@NWSLaCrosse) December 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nGOES16 Satellite imagery in the 3.9 micron band (infrared) easily detected the lauch of the #SpaceX<\/a> satellite from Vandenberg AFB. Although imaged at 5 min intervals, GOES16 just happened to image right after launch. Note area orange and yellow west of the coast line. #cawx<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qxf77jbhGj<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 NWS Hanford (@NWSHanford) December 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSignatures of another SpaceX rocket launch in Florida were captured by GOES-16 on 16 March 2017<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) 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 \u00b5m and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26457"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43995,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions\/43995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/G16_VIS_NIR_SWIR_SPACEX_LAUNCH_VBG_22DEC2017_380x1280_B257_2017357_012724_0003PANELS_00006_ANOT.gif\"){kind=link}