CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - DSCOVR -
Full Name Deep Space Climate Observatory
aka Triana
Status Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies NOAA, NASA, USAF Launch Date 11 Feb 2015
Mission Links mission site | data access portal EOL Date Dec 2027
EO Portal Info NORAD Catalog # 40390 (TLE)
International Designator 2015-007A
Orbit Type Earth-Sun L-1 Orbit Period 259200 minutes
Orbit Sense N/A Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude 1500000 km Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST Repeat Cycle 1 days
Objectives and Applications Measure a combination of solar phenomena and earth science measurements. Provides 15 min warning for solar storms (CME) events. Provides full disk Earth observations at 10 wavelengths with 2-4 hour cadence. This mission is positioned at the Earth-Sun L-1 point.
Mission Measurements
CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereAerosols EPIC
Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature EPIC
Cloud particle properties and profile EPIC
Ozone EPIC
Radiation budget NISTAR
Trace gases (excluding ozone) EPIC
Gravity and Magnetic FieldsGravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements PlasMag
LandAlbedo and reflectance EPIC
Vegetation EPIC
Mission Instruments
EPIC - Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
ES - Electron Spectrometer
FC - Faraday Cup
NISTAR - NIST Advanced Radiometer
PHA - Pulse Height Analyzer
PlasMag - Plasma-Magnetometer
OpenSearch Datasets Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 27 )
Daytime Earth radiation budget determined from NISTAR and EPIC composites Version 1
Deep Space Climate Observatory National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer Le ...
Deep Space Climate Observatory National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer Le ...
Deep Space Climate Observatory National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer Le ...
DSCOVR EPIC Aerosol Optical Centroid Height
DSCOVR EPIC Cloud Fraction Image
DSCOVR EPIC L2 Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) Version 02
DSCOVR EPIC L2 Ozone (O3), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Aerosol Index (AI) with Epic L1B V03 Input, Version ...
DSCOVR EPIC Level 1A Version 3
DSCOVR EPIC Level 1B Version 3

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