Sulfur hexafluoride (SF
6) is a greenhouse gas of very long lifetime. Its infrared absorption spectrum is very important in modeling the atmospheric radiation balances. The SF
6 is also a prototypical system for studying the principles and techniques of laser isotope separation using powerful infrared lasers. As a very heavy molecule, the infrared spectrum of SF
6 at room temperature is very dense, which poses a great challenge to monitoring the relative abundances of different SF
6 isotopomers by direct absorption spectroscopy. Supersonic jet expansions have been widely used to simplify the gas phase molecular spectra. In this work, astigmatic multi-pass absorption cell and distributed feed-back quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are used to measure jet-cooled rovibrational absorption spectra of
32SF
6 and
33SF
6 at 10.6 μm. The spectrometer works in a segmented rapid-scan mode. The gas mixtures (SF
6∶Ar∶He = 0.12∶1∶100) are expanded through an 80 mm
\times 
300 μm pulsed slit nozzle. Two QCLs running at room temperature are used and each one covers a spectral range of about 3.0 cm
–1. The
v3 fundamental bands of both
32SF
6 and
33SF
6 are observed. The rotational temperature of
32SF
6 and
33SF
6 in the ground state in the supersonic jet are both estimated at 10 K and the linewidth is about 0.0008 cm
–1 by comparing the simulated spectrum with the observed spectrum with the PGOPHER program. A new weak vibrational band centered around 941.0 cm
–1 is observed and tentatively assigned to the (
v1+
v2+
v3)–(
v1+
v2) hot band of
32SF
6. The effective Hamiltonian used to analyze the rovibrational spectrum of SF
6 is briefly introduced. A simplified rotational analysis for this hot band is performed with the XTDS program developed by the Dijon group. The band-origin of this hot band is determined to be 941.1785(21) cm
–1. The rotational temperature of this hot band is estimated at 50 K. A new scheme by measuring the jet-cooled absorption spectrum of this hot band of
32SF
6 and the
v3 fundamental band of
33SF
6 is proposed for measuring the relative abundance of
33SF
6/
32SF
6.