{"id":52030,"date":"2023-04-30T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=52030"},"modified":"2023-05-01T19:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T19:27:03","slug":"52030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52030","title":{"rendered":"Satellite signatures of the SpaceX ViaSat-3 Americas Mission launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/04\/230430_goes16_bands01-16_SpaceX_FalconHeavy_launch_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/04\/sx_b08-20230501_002617.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 images from all 16 ABI spectral bands, and a Rocket Plume RGB [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/04\/230430_goes16_bands01-16_SpaceX_FalconHeavy_launch_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> images from all 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0spectral bands\u00a0<em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket booster as the ViaSat-3 Americas Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 0025 UTC on 01 May (8:25 PM EST on 30 April 2023). The rocket launch condensation cloud was also evident in imagery from Infrared spectral bands (07-16), drifting slowly east-northward away from the launch site. One or both of these rocket launch signatures were detected by nearly all&#8217; of the ABI spectral bands (except for Visible Band 1), as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/QuickGuide_GOESR_RocketPlumeRGB.pdf\"><strong>Plume RGB<\/strong><\/a> images.<\/p>\n<p>A thermal signature of the rocket booster was also seen in 10-minue Full Disk sector GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/QuickGuide_GOESR_NtMicroRGB_Final_20191206.pdf\"><strong>Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> images frm the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#playing:true;coordinate:4253140,2786078;zoom:8.5;satellite:goeswest;num_frames:6;start_time:2023-05-01T00:25:00Z;timeframe:Start%20Time;\"><strong>CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/04\/230430_goes18_nighttimeMicrophysicsRGB_SpaceX_FalconHeavy_launch_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/04\/goeswest_abi_radf_true_color_night_20230501003020.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/04\/230430_goes18_nighttimeMicrophysicsRGB_SpaceX_FalconHeavy_launch_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI\u00a0spectral bands\u00a0(above) displayed the northeast-moving warm thermal signature of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket booster as the ViaSat-3 Americas Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 0025 UTC on 01 May (8:25 PM EST on 30 April 2023). The rocket launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,114,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","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\/52030","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=52030"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52051,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52030\/revisions\/52051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}