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Spectral Reflectance Newsletter #15

Weekly newsletter on Earth Observation

Level-2 News

“A close look at the leading edge of the storm system approaching the U.S. West Coast.” Captured by NOAA’s GOES-18 on Jan 4, 2023.

Satellites watch ‘atmospheric river’ bring extreme rain to California [link]
“A so-called atmospheric river is bringing huge amounts of tropical moisture to California, prompting weather forecasters to issue alerts for high risks of flooding.”

Follow this page for related imagery from the GOES satellites that monitor the cyclone. [link]

Release of Collection 2.1 of S3 NRT Fire Radiative Power [link]
Collection 2.1 of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Near Real Time (NRT) Level 2 (L2) Fire Radiative Power (FRP) product will be released on 12 January 2023.

SpaceX launches 114 small satellites on first mission of 2023 [link]
The first launch of 2023, the SpaceX’s Transporter mission carried dozens of Earth Observation satellites.
Transporter-6 was SpaceX’s sixth dedicated small-satellite rideshare mission. The 114 payloads on the flight included “cubesats, microsats, picosats and orbital transfer vehicles carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time”. Among them; radar satellites for ICEYE and Umbra, 4 optical satellites for Satellogic, 36 SuperDoves for Planet and several other earth observation satellites…