{"id":67829,"date":"2025-11-13T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=67829"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:26:53","slug":"satellite-signatures-of-the-blue-origin-new-glenn-ng-2-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/67829","title":{"rendered":"Satellite signatures of the Blue Origin New Glenn NG-2 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 3004px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251113_goes19_abi16panel_Blue_Orrigin_NG2_launch.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251113_2056utc_goes19_abi16panel_Blue_Origin_NG2_launch.png\" width=\"2994\" height=\"1664\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multi-panel display showing all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-19, from 2051-2106 UTC on 13 November; KXMR denoted the Cocoa Beach rawinsonde site [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>The Blue Origin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/missions\/ng-2\"><strong>New Glenn NG-2<\/strong><\/a> mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 2055 UTC on 13 November 2025. A multi-panel display showing all 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands on the GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East) <\/em>satellite <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed distinct thermal signatures in the 3 Water Vapor bands (08\/09\/10) at 2056 UTC, with a more subtle signature in the CO<sub>2<\/sub> band (16) and one faintly-brighter pixel in the Cirrus band (04). A signature of the rocket booster condensation cloud was evident in all 16 ABI spectral bands, closer to the coast. Unfortunately, there was no 1-minute GOES-19 Mesoscale Domain Sector coverage over that area &#8212; so only 5-minute CONUS Sector imagery was available.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly longer sequence of GOES-19 True Color RGB images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> highlighted the rapid dissipation of the rocket booster condensation cloud as it drifted eastward away from the launch site. Farther inland, the dense smoke plume from a prescribed burn is apparent.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1324px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/goeseast_abi_radc_true_color_night_s20251113205117_e20251113212617_f8.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/goeseast_abi_radc_true_color_night_20251113205617.png\" width=\"1314\" height=\"751\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-19 True Color RGB images, from 2051-2126 UTC on 13 November [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A plot of rawinsonde data from Cocoa Beach, Florida (KXMR) during the morning preceding the launch <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed dry air aloft throughout much of the troposphere &#8212; which contributed to the fairly rapid dissipation of the rocket booster&#8217;s condensation cloud as it drifted away from the coast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251113_1100utc_kxmr_rawinsonde.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/11\/251113_1100utc_kxmr_rawinsonde.gif\" width=\"1180\" height=\"826\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of rawinsonde data from Cocoa Beach, Florida (KXMR) at 1100 UTC on 13 November [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Origin New Glenn NG-2 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 2055 UTC on 13 November 2025. A multi-panel display showing all 16 ABI spectral bands on the GOES-19 (GOES-East) satellite (above) revealed distinct thermal signatures in the 3 Water Vapor bands (08\/09\/10) at 2056 UTC, with a more subtle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":67833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,45,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829","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=67829"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67878,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829\/revisions\/67878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}