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  2. Deep Space Climate Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR; formerly known as Triana, unofficially known as GoreSat [3]) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite. It was launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle on 11 February 2015, from Cape Canaveral. [4]

  3. List of objects at Lagrange points - Wikipedia

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    NASA: Launched 1997. Has fuel to orbit near L 1 until 2024. Operational as of 2019. [24] Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Sun–Earth L 1: NASA: Launched on 11 February 2015. Planned successor of the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite. LISA Pathfinder (LPF) Sun–Earth L 1: ESA, NASA

  4. List of Earth observation satellites - Wikipedia

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    NASA 2015 Deep Space Climate Observatory. Designed to study the Sun-lit side of Earth from the L1 Lagrange point. [8] DubaiSat-1 and 2: Active Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) 2009 EarthCARE: Active ESA and JAXA 2024 Designed to study clouds and aerosols. [9] Elektro-L No. 1, 2, and 3: Active Russia's Roscosmos: 2011 Fengyun 2D to 4A ...

  5. NASA's deep space satellite captures the dark shadow of an ...

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    At 1 million miles from Earth, the distant DSCOVR satellite, aka the Deep Space Climate Observatory, recently captured the moon's eerie shadow over Antarctica. The intriguing, relatively rare ...

  6. 2015 in science - Wikipedia

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    NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. [72] It will measure solar winds and provide crucial early warnings during solar flares. ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) demonstrates a new atmospheric reentry technology, returning from space to Earth similar to the Space Shuttle but without ...

  7. A severe geomagnetic storm causes colorful auroras over ...

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    The storm arrived at Earth moving at 1.5 million miles per hour (about 2.4 million kilometers per hour), and reached the Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Advanced Composition Explorer ...

  8. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    It is now widely accepted that the devastation and climate disruption resulting from the impact was the primary cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a mass extinction of 75% of plant and animal species on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

  9. Space climate - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of solar activity over 11,400 years. Period of equally high activity over 8,000 years ago marked. Space climate is the long-term variation in solar activity within the heliosphere, including the solar wind, the Interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), and their effects in the near-Earth environment, including the magnetosphere of Earth and the ionosphere, the upper and lower ...