Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)

Class:

Flight Project

Status:

Operational

Organizations:

Launch Date:

February 2015

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DSCOVR, formerly called Triana, is the first Earth-observing satellite in an Lagrange-1 or L1 orbit. It supports a number of scientific instruments, including EPIC and NISTAR. EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) is a 10-channel sepctroradiometer that provides daily 13 (in winter) or 22 (in summer) 10 narrow band spectral images of the entire sunlit face of Earth.

Key Staff
    Concept image of Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite.