{"id":70665,"date":"2026-05-28T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=70665"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:42:47","slug":"satellite-signatures-of-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-explosion-at-cape-canaveral-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/70665","title":{"rendered":"Satellite signatures of Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 3002px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260528_goes19_16panel_Blue_Origin.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/05\/260529_0121utc_goes19_16panel_Blue_Origin.png\" width=\"2992\" height=\"1668\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multi-panel display showing all 16 ABI spectral bands of GOES-19, from 0046-0201 UTC on 29 May [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>During &#8220;static fire&#8221; pre-launch testing of Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida just after sunset on 28 May 2026, a malfunction caused a significant explosion (which occurred around 0100 UTC on 29 May).\u00a0 The cloud that resulted from this explosion exhibited a distinct cold signature in GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands 07-16, as it drifted east-northeast away from the Florida coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During &#8220;static fire&#8221; pre-launch testing of Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida just after sunset on 28 May 2026, a malfunction caused a significant explosion (which occurred around 0100 UTC on 29 May).\u00a0 The cloud that resulted from this explosion exhibited a distinct cold signature in GOES-19 (GOES-East)\u00a0ABI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-19","category-rocket-signatures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70665","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=70665"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70686,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70665\/revisions\/70686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}