{"id":56460,"date":"2024-01-14T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=56460"},"modified":"2024-01-16T05:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:06:35","slug":"satellite-signatures-of-a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/56460","title":{"rendered":"Satellite signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/01\/240114_goes18_abiBands01-16_Falcon9_launch_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/01\/sx_b08-20240114_090125.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 images of ABI spectral bands 01-16, from 0859-0905 UTC on 14 January; KVBG denotes the Vandenberg CA rawinsonde site [click to play animated GIF |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/01\/240114_goes18_abiBands01-16_Falcon9_launch_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em>\u00a0images from all 16 of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 0859 UTC on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20240114.html\"><strong>14 January 2024<\/strong><\/a>. Either a reflectance signature or a warm thermal signature of the Stage 1 rocket booster was evident in images from 15 of the 16 spectral bands (Bands 02-16) \u2014 and a signature of the low-altitude rocket launch condensation cloud was seen in Shortwave Infrared and Infrared spectral bands 07-16 as it drifted eastward.<\/p>\n<p>A close-up view using 16-panel displays of all GOES-18 ABI spectral bands <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that either a reflectance or a thermal signature of the Stage 1 rocket booster was evident in most of the Visible and Near-Infrared bands (02\/03\/04\/05\/06) at 0900 UTC, along with a warm thermal signature in Infrared bands 07\/08\/09\/10\/16. After that time, a colder thermal signature of the rocket launch condensation cloud was seen in Bands 07-16 as it drifted eastward.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/01\/240114_goes18_abiBands01-16_multipanel_Falcon9_launch_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/01\/sx_16p-20240114_090028.png\" width=\"1704\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">16-panel display of all GOES-18 ABI spectral bands, from 0859-0905 UTC on 14 January [click to play animated GIF |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/01\/240114_goes18_abiBands01-16_multipanel_Falcon9_launch_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West)\u00a0images from all 16 of the\u00a0ABI spectral bands (above) displayed signatures of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California at 0859 UTC on 14 January 2024. Either a reflectance signature or a warm thermal signature of the Stage 1 rocket booster was evident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":56462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56460","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=56460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56469,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56460\/revisions\/56469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}