The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft, or DSCOVR, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:03 p.m. EST. DSCOVR is a partnership between NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Air Force, and will maintain the nation's real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities.
NASA/Tony Gray and Tim Powers
2015-02-11
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/16520270242/">Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) lifted off from Cape Canaveral</a>