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It’s All Systems Go for NOAA’s First Space Weather Satellite

DSCOVR is the linchpin of next-generation space weather forecasts

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 24, 2016. NOAA’s first space weather satellite, DSCOVR, has completed instrument validation and will go operational on July 27, when it will take over the role of monitoring potentially damaging space weather storms as they approach Earth.
A coronal mass ejection bursting from the edge of the Sun, May 1, 2013.
DSCOVR, which stands for Deep Space Climate Observatory, brings improved measurements and higher quality data than currently available, giving forecasters better information with which to issue…

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