Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

Landsat-9 Launch Seen from GOES-West

On Monday Landsat-9 was launched into space. Multiple GOES-West ABI bands caught the launch on the Southern California coast. Space.com included the imagery as an “image of the day”. https://www.space.com/34-image-day.html (D. Smith, S. Miller, C. Seaman, R. Brummer, CIRA, D. Lindsey, StAR, Dakota.Smith@colostate.edu, Steven.Miller@colostate.edu, Curtis.Seaman@colostate.edu, Dan.Lindsey@noaa.gov, Renate.Brummer@colostate.edu), Funding:  GOES-R.