{"id":46904,"date":"2022-06-18T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=46904"},"modified":"2022-12-09T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:50:25","slug":"30-second-goes-18-images-of-the-spacex-sarah-1-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/46904","title":{"rendered":"30-second GOES-18 images of the SpaceX SARah-1 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational
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Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Sectors provided 30-second GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images (above)<\/strong><\/em> that revealed thermal signatures of the SpaceX launch of the SARah-1<\/strong><\/a> Mission from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California at 14:19:00 UTC on 18 June 2022.<\/p>\n

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GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images at 14:21:55 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Signatures of Falcon 9’s Stage 1 booster were seen immediately post-launch (for example, at 14:21:55 UTC<\/strong>, above), as well during its “entry burn” to initiate a launch site landing (at 14:26:25 UTC<\/strong>, below).<\/p>\n

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GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images at 14:26:25 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Of particular interest was the brief expansion of hot water vapor and CO2 produced by initiation of the Stage 1 “boostback burn” (as seen in Water Vapor and Shortwave Infrared images at 14:22:55 UTC<\/strong>, below).<\/p>\n

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GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images at 14:22:55 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Plume RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided an integrated view of the rocket booster’s hot\/bright thermal signature as well as the expanding cloud of water vapor \/ CO2.<\/p>\n

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Plume RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A schematic of the Stage 1 trajectory is shown below.<\/p>\n

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Schematic of Falcon 9 Stage 1 booster rocket trajectory [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Kudos to Todd Beltracci, The Aerospace Corporation, for providing a heads-up on this rocket launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Sectors provided 30-second GOES-18 Water Vapor, Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images (above) that revealed thermal signatures of the SpaceX launch of the SARah-1 Mission from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California at 14:19:00 UTC on 18 June 2022. Signatures of Falcon 9’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,114,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geo2grid","category-goes-18","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46904","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=46904"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49093,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46904\/revisions\/49093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}