{"id":34478,"date":"2019-09-24T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=34478"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:34:46","slug":"satellite-views-of-a-spacecraft-freighter-launch-from-tanegashima-island-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/34478","title":{"rendered":"Satellite views of a Spacecraft Freighter Launch from Tanegashima Island in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery at 1602 UTC on 24 September 2019 (Click to enlarge) (Image courtesy Mike Ziobro and Brandon Aydlett, WFO Guam)<\/p><\/div>\n

NOAA-20 has viewed the launch from Tanegashima Island of a Japanese Spacecraft (NASA Blog Coverage<\/a>; YouTube video<\/a>, launch is at minute 35 in the video). Brandon Aydlett, NWS Guam, noted the appearance of a very bright spot in the Day Night Band imagery from NOAA-20 at 1602 UTC on 24 September (and a hot spot as well in the infrared imagery shown below). (NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP data in this blog post were downloaded at the Direct Broadcast Antenna at the Forecast Office in Guam). NOAA-20 Orbital passes (from this site<\/a>) show an overpass near the island<\/a> at 1605 UTC; Suomi NPP had a more direct overpass<\/a> over the island around 1657 UTC. Compare the NOAA-20 image, above, timestamped 1602 UTC, to the Suomi NPP image, below, timestamped at 1654 UTC. The bright signal over Tanegashima at 1602 UTC is missing from the 1654 UTC Suomi NPP imagery.<\/p>\n

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Suomi-NPP Day Night Band visible imagery (0.7 \u00b5m) at 1654 UTC on 24 September 2019 (Click to enlarge) (Image courtesy Mike Ziobro and Brandon Aydlett, WFO Guam)<\/p><\/div>\n

Infrared Imagery captured the thermal signature of this launch as well. The hot spots in VIIRS imagery are obvious at 1602 UTC from NOAA-20, but not at 1654 UTC from Suomi NPP, at both 3.74 and 11.45, as shown below.<\/p>\n

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VIIRS shortwave infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) imagery at 1654 UTC (left) and at 1602 UTC (center, right, with two different color enhancements). Blown-up versions of the warm pixels are shown (Click to enlarge) (Image courtesy Mike Ziobro and Brandon Aydlett, WFO Guam)<\/p><\/div>\n

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VIIRS infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) imagery at 1654 UTC (left) and at 1602 UTC (right, same color enhancements). Blown-up versions of the warm pixels are shown (Click to enlarge) (Image courtesy Mike Ziobro and Brandon Aydlett, WFO Guam)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Himawari-8 shortwave infrared imagery also captured the launch, with a hot spot in a Japan Sector image at 1605 UTC on 24 September 2019<\/a>, below.<\/p>\n

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Himawari-8 shortwave infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) imagery from 1600-1610 UTC on 24 September 2019 (Click to enlarge). Himawari data courtesy of JMA.<\/p><\/div>\n

There is a considerable parallax shift in the NOAA-20 imagery, as the VIIRS instrument is scanning at the limb in the image, and the rocket at the time was very high in the atmosphere. The parallax shift in the Himawari-8 imagery is less noticeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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