DSCOVR Overview Mike Simpson and Doug Biesecker COPC November 4, 2014
NOAA Partnered - Planned Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR): Partnership with NASA to refurbish DSCOVR satellite to meet Solar Wind mission, and USAF to provide the launch vehicle. DSCOVR will continue the solar wind measurements currently performed by magnetometer and plasma sensors on NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite. Schedule & Milestones: FY 2014: Perform Spacecraft and Sensor Environmental Testing FY 2015: Launch Spacecraft FY : Operations and Maintenance Orbit:‘Halo’/Lissajous orbit at L1. DSCOVR spacecraft will have consumables for 5 years. Objectives: The DSCOVR mission main objective is to continue solar wind measurements in support of space weather requirements. The secondary objectives are to image the Sun lit disk of Earth for ozone, aerosol, cloud cover, cloud height, vegetation, and leaf area indices and to measure the Earth reflected irradiance. Instruments: Plasma –Magnetometer (PlasMag): Magnetometer and Faraday Cup Electron Spectrometer Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) NIST Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR) Pulse Height Analyzer (PHA) 2
DSCOVR Updates Observatory –Spacecraft and Sensors are fully integrated. –Successfully completed all Observatory Environmental testing. –Observatory scheduled for November 2014 shipment to Launch site. Ground System –Mission Operations Center (MOC) completed. –Hardware/software releases and testing on schedule to support launch/operations with the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) scheduled for November. –Radio Frequency (RF) compatibility testing with NASA networks completed. –NASA networks will continue to provide support for DSCOVR activation and checkout until NOAA ground antenna is certified during DSCOVR transit to final orbit at L1 prior to system handover to NOAA. DSCOVR on schedule for 23 January 2015 Launch Readiness Date 3
DSCOVR Schedule TaskDate Completed Observatory Integration TestingJanuary 2014 Completed Environmental TestingAugust 2014 Pre-Ship Review & Operational Readiness Review November 2014 LaunchJanuary 2015 Insertion into Final Orbit & Transition to NOAA Operations May-June
DSCOVR Real-Time Data and Product Flow Firewalled Demilitarized Zone National Critical System VC0/VC1 ingest SFTP file server Raw day file generation files E-SWDS Level 0-2 processing SWDS Legacy product generation MOCbMOCDSOCMMFD SWPC forecasters NGDC NOAA Web Farm Watches, Warnings, and Alerts General public AFWA AFRL SWAFS Commercial service providers Operational partners Other agency partners International partners SWPC provides data with high reliability to preferred customers via the External-Space Weather Data Store (E-SWDS) E-SWDS is a SQL Server E-SWDS data is replicated in real-time from the SWPC operational server Air Force partners already use E-SWDS to access RTSW data from ACE SWPC has provided SWAFS with access to DSCOVR test data via E-SWDS Key: AFWA – Air Force Weather Agency AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory DSCOVR – Deep Space Climate Observatory DSOC – DSCOVR Science Operations Center MMFD – Multi-Mission Flight Dynamics MOC – Mission Operations Center bMOC – Backup MOC NGDC – National Geophysical Data Center SFTP – Secure File Transfer Protocol SQL – Structured Query Language SWAFS – Space Weather Analysis & Forecast System SWDS – Space Weather Data Store E-SWDS – External SWDS SWPC – Space Weather Prediction Center VC0/VC1 – Virtual Channels 0 & 1 from DSCOVR Downlin k from DSCOVR 5