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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. 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 ...

  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. 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 ...

  6. 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. [4]

  7. Human presence in space - Wikipedia

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    Human presence in outer space began with the first launches of artificial object in the mid 20th century, and has increased to the point where Earth is orbited by a vast number of artificial objects and the far reaches of the Solar System have been visited and explored by a range of space probes.

  8. SpaceX Wins First USAF Contracts - AOL

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    First in 2014, and then in 2015, SpaceX will assist in conducting first the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) and then the STP-2 (Space Test Program 2) missions, launching each aboard the ...

  9. Chang'e 5-T1 - Wikipedia

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    The impactor object was previously misidentified as 2015-007B, the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket which launched NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft, but was later correctly identified as the Long March stage in February 2022. The event showed the challenges of tracking small objects in deep space, underlining the ...