{"id":45945,"date":"2022-04-27T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45945"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:07:31","slug":"space-x-launch-of-the-nasa-crew-4-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45945","title":{"rendered":"Space-X launch of the NASA Crew-4 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 images from all 16 ABI spectral bands [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> images from all 16 ABI spectral bands (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed thermal signatures of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster as the Crew-4 Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 27 April 2022. The low-altitude rocket condensation cloud was also evident, moving slowly eastward away from the launch site.<\/p>\n

GOES-16 Plume RGB<\/strong><\/a> images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided an integrated view that highlighted both the northeast-moving hot thermal signature of the rocket booster, and the low-altitude rocket condensation cloud that drifted eastward.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Plume RGB images (credit: Tim Schmit, NOAA\/NESDIS\/ASPB) [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images from GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> and GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> at 0755 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large eastward displacement of the booster rocket’s thermal signature in the GOES-17 image — due to parallax<\/strong><\/a> associated with the very large viewing angle from GOES-17.<\/p>\n

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Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images from GOES-16 and GOES-17 at 0755 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

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16-panel display of all GOES-16<\/strong> ABI spectral bands at 0753 UTC, with AWIPS cursor sampling values [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A 16-panel display of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands at 0753 UTC which includes AWIPS cursor sampling values (above)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that a slight reflectance value (1.75%) was detected for Band 2 (“Red” Visible, 0.64 \u00b5m) — but not for Band 1 (“Blue” Visible, 0.47 \u00b5m). However, with GOES-17 viewing the rear portion of the northeastward-ascending Falcon 9 rocket booster, a slight reflectance signal (0.13%) was also seen with the 0.47 \u00b5m spectral band (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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16-panel display of all GOES-17<\/strong> ABI spectral bands at 0753 UTC, with AWIPS cursor sampling values [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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