{"id":38988,"date":"2020-11-21T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38988"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:33:27","slug":"spacex-launch-of-the-sentinel-6-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38988","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch of the Sentinel-6 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/11\/201121_goes17_16spectralBands_Sentinel6_launch_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/11\/vbg_b09-20201121_171925.png\" alt=\"1-minute images from all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-17 [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"645\" height=\"301\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute images from all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-17 [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/11\/201121_goes17_16spectralBands_Sentinel6_launch_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;images from all 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands of GOES-17 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> showed signatures of the launch of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\"><strong>SpaceX<\/strong><\/a> Falcon 9 rocket (carrying the Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich satellite) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20201121.html\"><strong>21 November 2020<\/strong><\/a>. During the first few minutes post-launch, arcing rapidly northeastward then eastward was the thermal signature of air that was superheated by the rocket exhaust, evident in all of the Near-Infrared bands (3-6) and most of the Infrared bands (7-15) \u2014 in addition to a separate signature of the low\/mid-altitude booster rocket condensation cloud that was seen in all of the Infrared bands (drifting more slowly eastward, away from the launch site).<\/p>\n<p>A 16-panel display of all GOES-17 ABI spectral bands during the first 11 minutes after launch is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/11\/201121_goes17_16panel_Sentinel6_launch_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/11\/vbg_16p-20201121_171925.png\" alt=\"16-panel display of all GOES-17 ABI spectral bands, 1716-1728 UTC [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"299\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">16-panel display of all GOES-17 ABI spectral bands, 1716-1728 UTC [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/11\/201121_goes17_16panel_Sentinel6_launch_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute&nbsp;Mesoscale Domain Sector&nbsp;images from all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-17 (GOES-West) showed signatures of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (carrying the Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich satellite) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on 21 November 2020. During the first few minutes post-launch, arcing rapidly northeastward then eastward was the thermal signature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988","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=38988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44000,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38988\/revisions\/44000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}