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Video: DSCOVR prepared for launch

February 10, 2015

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

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

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.

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