Deep Space Climate Observatory

A Year of DSCOVR-y: Joint NASA/NOAA Earth-Watcher Celebrates 12 Months of Operations

By Ben Evans, on February 11th, 2016

The lunar farside begins its transit of the sunlit Earth, as seen by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) in July 2015. Photo Credit: NASA/NOAA

At first glance, it appeared to be an impressive PhotoShop image. The view of the Moon, passing in front of the sunlit face of Earth in July […]

'Third Time Lucky': SpaceX Successfully Launches DSCOVR on Three-Month, Million-Mile Trek to L1

By Ben Evans, on February 12th, 2015

After more than a decade of delay and disappointment, Triana has risen again as the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), rocketing into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 booster at 6:03 p.m. EST Wednesday. Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace

Following two scrubs in three days, caused by a combination of problematic high-level winds […]

Farthest-Flying SpaceX Payload Set for Sunday Night Launch (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on February 6th, 2015

The Falcon 9 v1.1 launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on 10 January 2015. Photo Credit: John Studwell / AmericaSpace

Less than a month since it successfully delivered the fifth dedicated Dragon cargo craft into orbit, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX—the Hawthorne, Calif.-based launch services provider, headed by […]

Farthest-Flying SpaceX Payload Set for Sunday Night Launch (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on February 5th, 2015

DSCOVR mission logo. Image Credit: NOAA/NASA/U.S. Air Force

Conceived in a dream by a former Vice President of the United States, hamstrung by a rapidly increasing price tag, disparagingly nicknamed “a multi-million-dollar screen saver,” grounded in the wake of a steadily shrinking shuttle flight schedule and the Columbia disaster and finally revived and […]

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) to Maintain Critical US Space Weather Alert Capabilities

By Ken Kremer, on November 8th, 2014

NOAA/NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) undergoes final processing in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center clean room in November 2014. Solar wind instruments at right. DSCOVR will launch in January 2015 atop SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com

NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD — The Deep Space Climate Observatory, […]

SpaceX Awarded Company's First-Ever EELV Contract By U.S. Air Force

By Jason Rhian, on December 5th, 2012

SpaceX has been awarded an EELV contract by the U.S. Air Force, a first for the company. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com

HAWTHORNE, Calif., — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has been awarded the contract to launch two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions by the United States Air Force Space and Missile […]