1-minute GOES-16 images of ABI spectral bands 01-16 and a Rocket Plume RGB, from 1324-1329 UTC on 14 March; KBRO denotes the Brownsville TX rawinsonde site [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

1-minute Mesoscale Domain  Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 of the ABI spectral bands plus a Rocket Plume RGB (above) displayed signatures of the SpaceX Starship 3 rocket that was launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas at 1325 UTC on 14 March 2024. During the first 4 minutes post-launch, the Stage 1 rocket booster’s condensation cloud was evident in images from all 16 spectral bands, as it began to drift slowly eastward away from the Texas coast — and the ascending rocket booster’s thermal signature was seen in Near-Infrared and Infrared spectral bands 04-16, as well as the Rocket Plume RGB.

A close-up view using 16-panel displays of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands (below) showed that a warm thermal signature of the Stage 1 rocket booster was apparent at 1328 UTC in Infrared bands 04-16 (just to the right of center in each image panel).

16-panel display of all GOES-16 ABI spectral bands, every minute from 1327-1329 UTC on 14 March [click to enlarge]

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