{"id":36890,"date":"2020-05-30T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36890"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:34:09","slug":"spacex-launch-of-the-crew-dragon-demo-2-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36890","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch of the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m, left),<\/em> Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m, left)<\/em> Water Vapor images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>SpaceX<\/strong><\/a> launched the Crew Dragon Demo-2<\/strong><\/a> mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1922 UTC on 30 May 2020. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Lower-level (7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the thermal signature of hot combustion byproducts (water vapor and carbon dioxide) in the wake of the Falcon 9<\/strong><\/a> booster engines.<\/p>\n

A larger-scale view of GOES-16 Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a signature of the Stage 1 rocket re-entry burn farther offshore at 1930 UTC<\/strong><\/a> (the 1930 UTC image was from the other GOES-16 Mesoscale Domain Sector, which was positioned farther north).<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> Water Vapor images [click to play animation | MP4]<\/p><\/div>\n

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GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, left), <\/em>Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m, left)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A thermal signature was also seen in GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared imagery (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) imagery (above<\/strong>);<\/em> a separate Shortwave Infrared animation with a different color enhancement is shown below. Note the initial appearance of a hot pixel over the launch site on the 19:22:50 UTC image, which was scanning that particular location at 19:23:20 UTC (shortly after the 19:22 UTC launch time).<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images (credit: Tim Schmit, ASPB\/CIMSS) [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> are shown below — the rocket booster condensation cloud can be seen near the center of the images, beginning as a short linear feature then morphing into a more diffuse C-shaped feature as it drifted slowly eastward over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1922 UTC on 30 May 2020. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Lower-level (7.3 \u00b5m), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m) Water Vapor images (above) showed the thermal signature of hot combustion byproducts (water vapor and carbon dioxide) in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890","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=36890"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44003,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions\/44003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}