{"id":33634,"date":"2019-06-25T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=33634"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:29:11","slug":"space-x-falcon-heavy-rocket-launch-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/33634","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch signature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190625_goes16_spacex_launch_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190625_goes16_spacex_launch_anim.gif\" alt=\"16-panel images of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"381\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">16-panel images of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/news\/2019\/06\/26\/stp-2-mission\"><strong>STP-2 mission<\/strong><\/a> occurred at 0630 UTC (2:30 am EDT) on 25 June 2019. 16-panel images showing all GOES-16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed visible and thermal signatures &#8212; ranging from hot thermal signals of air superheated by the rocket exhaust (perhaps best seen in Water Vapor bands 8, 9 and 10) to signatures of the low-altitude exhaust plume cloud drifting slowly southward just off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n<p>A magnified view of the 16-panel image at 0630 UTC is shown below. Note that there was a rocket signal seen in all 16 spectral bands &#8212; even the &#8220;Blue&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band01.pdf\"><strong>0.47 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Channel 1, with a very subtle 0.1% reflectance value.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190625_0630utc_goes16_spacex_launch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/190625_0630utc_goes16_spacex_launch.png\" alt=\"16-panel images of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands at 0630 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"392\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">16-panel images of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands at 0630 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch of the STP-2 mission occurred at 0630 UTC (2:30 am EDT) on 25 June 2019. 16-panel images showing all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands (above) revealed visible and thermal signatures &#8212; ranging from hot thermal signals of air superheated by the rocket exhaust (perhaps best seen in Water Vapor bands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33634","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\/33634","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=33634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43990,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634\/revisions\/43990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}