The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was launched to the Earth–Sun L1 Lagrange point to monitor solar activity and provide full-disk images of the Earth.
NOAA expected DSCOVR to resume operations in the first quarter of 2020 after implementing a software fix.
As director of the Space Test Program, D. Jason Cothern led the Rocket Systems Launch Program and was mission director for the Department of Defense’s first SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that deployed the NASA and NOAA DSCOVR satellite in February 2015.
NOAA was working with NASA and an unnamed company on a software fix to restore DSCOVR as of 2019-09-30.
Congress included funding for DSCOVR operations in its final appropriations bills despite the 2017-10-01 and 2018-10-01 NASA budget requests.
NOAA uses DSCOVR to monitor space weather conditions from the Earth–sun L1 Lagrange point approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth toward the sun.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft went into a safehold on 2019-06-27, interrupting its science observations from its perch at the Earth–Sun L1 Lagrange point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth in the direction of the Sun.
DSCOVR was launched in February 2015.
NASA’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal sought $1,700,000 for DSCOVR operations, the same amount the mission received in 2018.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is a 570-kilogram satellite launched in 2015 to track solar wind from L1.