Tag: NOAA
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Moon photobombs Earth in amazing video from DSCOVR satellite
The moon passes across Earth’s disk in a July 16 image captured by the DSCOVR satellite from its observation point, a million miles out in space. The Americas and the Pacific Ocean are visible beneath Earth’s cloud cover. Because the moon was moving while DSCOVR acquired the data for this three-filter image, there appears to…
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NOAA satellite sends back view of planet Earth
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, or EPIC, instrument aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory captured this image of Earth on July 6, showing North and South America. Credit: NASA Fulfilling an idea dreamed up by former Vice President Al Gore more than 17 years ago, NASA has released the first in a daily series of…
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Satellite owners among bystanders in Falcon 9 accident
Updated June 30 with SpaceX comment. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. The rocket broke apart at about T+plus 2 minutes, 19 seconds, and SpaceX is focusing its investigation on the second stage. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images The long queue of satellites waiting on launches aboard SpaceX’s…
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Jason 3 satellite shipped to Vandenberg for SpaceX launch
Artist’s concept of the Jason 3 satellite in orbit. Credit: Thales Alenia Space-D. Ducros An international oceanography satellite arrived at its California launch base from a factory in France on Thursday for fueling, testing and other final preps before its scheduled Aug. 8 blastoff on a Falcon 9 rocket. Packed inside a specialized shipping container,…
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DSCOVR space weather sentinel reaches finish line
The Deep Space Climate Observatory is operating at the L1 Lagrange point a million miles from Earth in line with the sun. Credit: NOAA A new space weather observatory launched in February has completed a four-month journey to an operating post a million miles from Earth, NOAA announced Monday. The $340 million mission will look…
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USA’s next generation weather sentinel completes assembly
The first of four next-generation weather satellites has completed assembly at Lockheed Martin. The new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite “GOES-R” will launch atop an Atlas V rocket in early 2016, ahead of providing significant improvements to monitoring the weather conditions over North America. GOES-R: The history of weather satellites working in geostationary orbits reaches back to…
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Launch of U.S.-French oceanography satellite postponed
The Jason 3 satellite inside a clean room at its Thales Alenia Space factory in Cannes. Credit: CNES/Thales Alenia Space The launch of a U.S.-French oceanography satellite from California has been postponed from July 22 after engineers discovered contamination in one of the spacecraft’s thrusters at its factory in France. NOAA announced the launch slip…
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Space weather observatory blasts off after 17-year wait
The Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 6:03 p.m. EST (2303 GMT) with the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: SpaceX An interplanetary space weather station rocketed away from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, speeding toward a remote operating post a million miles from Earth to help forecasters warn of intense solar…
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Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by high winds aloft
The Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Unfavorable high-altitude winds above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday kept a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a NOAA space weather observatory on the ground another day. The 22-story rocket was filled with rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, and nothing else…
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17 years later, Gore makes case for viewing Earth from deep space
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, and former Vice President Al Gore speak to reporters at the Kennedy Space Center before Sunday’s launch attempt for the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After waiting nearly two decades for dream to become reality, former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday the mission he fostered in 1998 —…