NOAA Space Weather Mission Underway
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a new satellite designed to monitor space weather, launched on Wednesday, Feb. 11, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. A partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force, DSCOVR will maintain the nation’s solar wind observations, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of NOAA’s space weather alerts, forecasts, and warnings. The spacecraft was built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and carries two NASA Earth science instruments to advance our understanding of our home planet.
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NOAA Space Weather Mission Underway
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did the spacex boosters land this time…cool idea.….:)
Great launch and combined effort from every one involved!! Can’t wait to see some of the results from this mission.
The RCS burns on the first stage after separation at 3:07 are so cool.
60FPS… nice.
Wow. Just wow. I’ve never seen stage or fairing separation from the ground before. Being able to see those and the RCS burns… incredible.
Underwater?
yeehh it launch unlike the last couple of years. 🙂 go work nasa
wow, I can’t believe how much light those engines were putting off and how it was able to be seen from the ground for so long. Didn’t quite have that ripping sound from the exhaust that the last launch had but it was still cool to watch.
What? One of my all time favorite movies is October Sky.. I missed my calling in life it seems.
Another awesome job Space X!
So awesome to see the engine cutoff and separations from a camera instead of the computer generated models. I’ve wanted to see something done like that for a long time.
Check out the engine on the onboard from the second stage! Now I bet that thing was pretty warm.
I’m presuming solar wind observations will more accurately detect radiation spikes as well
god bless the earth
I like this videos
Nice to see some of the planets money going towards something that’s good.
At 3:40, what do they say? What is that term called when DSCOVR is exposed to space for the first time?
0:23 to protect planet earth!
I am not going to lie but i laughed hard on this one.
Keep it up NASA, you will always inspire us.
Are people still getting spellbound by a rocket
it’s like watching a steam train chug it’s way out of a station hopefully we can realize our potential and find a more sophisticated way of putting a lab and some junk in orbit the universe is our playground we’ve barley made it in the gate.
Tsk
Good
Next time protect planet Mars please.
I passed over in a plane just a couple of hours before the launch >:(
Protect or weaponise weather ??