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GOES-16 ABI spectral bands 1-16 [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

On 10 November 2021, SpaceX and NASA launched the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 pm EDT (0203 UTC on 11 November). GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Mesoscale Domain Sector 1<\/strong><\/a> provided images at 1-minute intervals (above)<\/strong><\/em> — reflectance and\/or thermal signatures of the Falcon-9<\/strong><\/a> rocket booster were seen in 15 of the 16 ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands during the initial portion of its northeastward trajectory. The hottest Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/em><\/strong><\/a>) brightness temperature was 70.63\u00baC at 0205 UTC (which was around the time of Second Stage ignition).<\/p>\n

A zoomed-in comparison of GOES-16 Visible and Near-Infrared images at 0204 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a better view of the signatures just off the coast of Florida — an AWIPS cursor sampling<\/strong><\/a> indicated that there was even a 0.13% reflectance signal in the 0.47 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> “Blue” Visible image (but this value was not bright enough to be seen using the default enhancement). <\/p>\n

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Comparison of GOES-16 Visible and Near-Infrared images at 0204 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-16 Plume RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> highlighted a bright thermal signature of the Falcon-9 rocket booster ascent, as well as the darker signature of low-altitude condensation clouds (resulting from the rocket launch) which moved slowly eastward.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Plume RGB (credit: Tim Schmit, NOAA\/NESDIS) [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>\n

A toggle between Plume RGB images from GOES-16 and GOES-17 at 0205 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a significant eastward parallax<\/strong><\/a> displacement of the yellow\/orange thermal anomaly signature on the GOES-17 image. At that time, the rocket was at an altitude of about 70 km.<\/p>\n

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Plume RGB images from GOES-16 and GOES-17 at 0205 UTC (credit: Tim Schmit, NOAA\/NESDIS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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On 10 November 2021, SpaceX and NASA launched the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 pm EDT (0203 UTC on 11 November). GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mesoscale Domain Sector 1 provided images at 1-minute intervals (above) — reflectance and\/or thermal signatures of the Falcon-9 rocket booster were seen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,80,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223","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=43223"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43997,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43223\/revisions\/43997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}