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[ September 15, 2026 ] Avio launches pair of climate monitoring European spacecraft to study plants, oceans and atmospheric changes News
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[ September 9, 2026 ] SpaceX launches classified payload for the U.S. Space Force Falcon 9
[ September 5, 2026 ] SpaceX launches 80th Starlink mission of 2026 Falcon 9
[ September 1, 2026 ] SpaceX launches Starlink mission from West Coast Falcon 9

Video: DSCOVR prepared for launch

February 10, 2015 Justin Ray

This narrated video clip shows NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory being readied for launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Photos: DSCOVR buttoned up for Falcon 9 launch

February 7, 2015 Stephen Clark

Engineers worked inside a climate-controlled clean room for two months to ready NOAA’s new space weather observatory for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

NOAA space weather sentinel joined with Falcon 9 rocket

February 3, 2015 Stephen Clark

A new space weather observatory to be stationed a million miles from Earth has been enclosed inside the nose cone of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for liftoff Sunday from Cape Canaveral.