Tag: DSCOVR
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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…