Managers of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the DSCOVR spacecraft have given a "go" to load propellants aboard the two-stage Falcon. Weather remains 90 percent "go" and there are no technical issues that would prevent the launch of DSCOVR at 6:10:12 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida.
Our continuous countdown coverage to the launch of NOAA's DSCOVR mission will begin at 3:30 p.m. EST leading up to liftoff at 6:10 p.m. The weather is looking very good for this evening's liftoff, too, and forecasters continue to offer a 90 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time. The launch window is instantaneous …
There is a 90 percent chance of favorable weather for launch of DSCOVR, NOAA's new deep space satellite to monitor space weather. DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft is targeted for launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:10:12 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 8, from …
NASA TV will provide live coverage of a news briefing on the DSCOVR mission, NOAA's new satellite to monitor space weather, at 1 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 7 from the Press Site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The briefing also will stream live on the agency's website here. NASA TV's and the DSCOVR launch blog coverage of countdown …
Weather forecasters from the U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron are predicting a 90 percent chance of favorable weather for launch of DSCOVR, the new NOAA satellite to monitor space weather. The primary concern is for thick clouds at launch time. DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft …
NOAA's Satellite and Information Service has posted this press kit for that agency's DSCOVR mission due to launch Sunday at 6:10 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida adjacent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. A SpaceX Falcon 9 will be used to lift the spacecraft to the L1 point in space a million …
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft is in excellent health, Kent Kellogg, the SMAP project manager, announced during a post-launch press conference. "All subsystems are being powered on and checked out as planned," he said. "Communications, guidance and control, computers and power are all operating nominally." The observatory's instruments won't be turned on until 11 …
And all three ELaNa X missions are flying free now that ExoCube, a space weather satellite consisting of three CubeSat units, has been deployed.
The GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Performance Experiment, or GRIFEX, has successfully separated from the Delta II. GRIFEX is a technology validation mission consisting of three CubeSat units.
The FIREBIRD-II (A and B) payload has been deployed! This is a two-Cubesat space weather project that will study electron microbursts in the Van Allen radiation belts.
