The upcoming Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a satellite designed to monitor and warn of harmful solar activity that could impact Earth, recently cleared two major reviews and remains on track to launch January 23, 2015. The DSCOVR mission is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force and will be operated by NOAA. The DSCOVR mission is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
DSCOVR was launched on Feb.11, 2015, and 100 days later it reached the Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point and began orbiting about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. Passing the Pre-ship Review confirmed the satellite's … That’s the distance of NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite, which acquired the second image on August 15.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership , GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC, and data from DSCOVR EPIC .
DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
Daily natural color imagery of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft. Previous NASA missions include: ISEE 3 launched in 1978, and ACE, Wind and SOHO currently in the L1 orbit. The satellite has a continuous view of the Sun and the sunlit side of Earth.
NASA Goddard processes the … Other NASA satellites have used the L1 position for orbit, but this is the first time a NOAA satellite will orbit in L1. DSCOVR satellite at NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, Md., waits to be shipped to Cape Canaveral, Fla. From there, SWPC distributes the DSCOVR data to users within the United States and around the world. NOAA operates DSCOVR from its Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland, and processes the space weather data at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. NASA, using NOAA funds, refurbished the DSCOVR satellite and instruments, which had been in storage for several years.