Tag: DSCOVR
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Video: Falcon/DSCOVR prelaunch news conference
Officials from SpaceX, NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force hold the prelaunch news conference for Falcon 9 rocket launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
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Near-ideal weather expected for Sunday’s Falcon 9 launch
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket inside SpaceX’s hangar at Cape Canaveral before a previous launch. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters predict mostly clear skies, light winds and comfortable temperatures for Sunday’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with a NOAA satellite designed to warn of solar storms that could disrupt navigation and communication technology on…
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NOAA space weather sentinel joined with Falcon 9 rocket
The Deep Space Climate Observatory is pictured inside the Astrotech satellite processing facility in Titusville, Florida. One half of the Falcon 9 rocket’s payload fairing is seen behind the spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett A new space weather observatory to be stationed a million miles from Earth has been enclosed inside the nose cone of a…
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Next Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Feb. 8
Credit: NOAA The next liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been reset for no earlier than Feb. 8, NOAA and NASA officials said Tuesday, apparently to give the launch provider more time to prepare for the mission. The launch with NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, a repurposed satellite originally built in the late 1990s,…
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Cargo flight first of many SpaceX launches planned for 2015
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is seen at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad before going vertical. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX will kick off a busy 2015 calendar playing catch-up, with liftoff of a Dragon supply ship for the International Space Station set for Tuesday after a delay from December. At least a dozen — and perhaps…
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Deep Space Climate Observatory arrives at Florida launch site
The Deep Space Climate Observatory mission patch. Credit: NOAA/NASA/U.S. Air Force A novel NOAA climate observatory with a unique past arrived at Cape Canaveral on Thursday to begin two months of launch preparations, testing, and fueling before liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Deep Space Climate Observatory — known as DSCOVR — was…