Tag: DSCOVR
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DSCOVR resumes operations after eight-month outage
Artist’s concept of the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NOAA The Deep Space Climate Observatory has resumed regular observations after NOAA and NASA engineers uplinked a software patch to the spacecraft a million miles from Earth, restoring data on space weather and a daily series views of the sunlit side of our home planet. The…
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NASA officials expect fewer Earth science missions in coming years
This plankton bloom in the Barents Sea is a colorful example of the microscopic ocean life that the PACE satellite is designed to observe globally. PACE is one of four Earth science missions identified for cancellation in the White House’s budget blueprint.Credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory Expect fewer missions to study planet Earth in NASA’s future,…
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Trump budget blueprint focuses on deep space exploration, commercial partnerships
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission grabbing a piece of an asteroid, a project due for cancellation under President Trump’s budget proposal. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is proposing $19.1 billion for NASA in its fiscal 2018 budget blueprint, a 0.8 percent decrease from 2017 funding levels,…
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New and improved space weather observatory goes live next month
Artist’s concept of the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NOAA NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, a $340 million mission that spent more than a decade grounded in a Maryland warehouse, will begin warning forecasters of dangerous solar storms next month, giving notice of events that could disrupt air travel, radio communications, electrical grids and satellite…
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NASA to post new ‘blue marble’ pictures every day
Your daily dose of planet Earth is now just a click away, thanks to a new NASA website hosting photos looking back at the world from a small satellite stationed almost a million miles away, realizing a dream of former Vice President Al Gore nearly two decades ago. The Earth views are not the primary purpose…
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Watch the moon transit the Earth
Spectacular views from a NOAA space weather observatory show the sunlit far side of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a distant vantage point a million miles away. The first glimpse of the moon’s transit of Earth from the Deep Space Climate Observatory was released Wednesday by NASA, which runs the Earth-watching…
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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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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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100th Merlin 1D engine flies on Falcon 9 rocket
File photo of a Merlin 1D engine. Credit: SpaceX Depending on how you count it, SpaceX launched its 100th kerosene-fueled Merlin 1D rocket engine on a Falcon 9 rocket Feb. 11, underscoring what it says is an accelerated flight regime for the centerpiece of the company’s propulsion shop. The Falcon 9 rocket uses 10 Merlin…
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Video: Falcon 9 launch replays
Various alternate camera angles capture the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with the Deep Space Climate Observatory.