Comments on: DSCOVR in safe mode https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/dscovr-in-safe-mode/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: D. Messier https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/dscovr-in-safe-mode/#comment-1068748 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:20:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=59271#comment-1068748 Wikipedia says the National Academies of Sciences examined the mission in 2000 and found it to be “strong and scientifically vital.” It was Bush that placed it in storage rather than on STS-107 the doomed Columbia flight. It could have been launched in 2003 without the extra storage, refurbishment and launch costs.

]]> By: Wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/dscovr-in-safe-mode/#comment-1068733 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:31:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=59271#comment-1068733 Ironically, it would have shown a greener Earth and that things weren’t as the alarmists predicted. But that is how things are now and they still find a way to keep the fearmongering industry alive.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/dscovr-in-safe-mode/#comment-1068719 Sun, 07 Jul 2019 06:11:58 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=59271#comment-1068719 ” . . . the solar weather community, and especially the world’s electrical power industry, was desperate to get a new satellite in space.”

‘A wise man can smell profit on the wind.’

Ferengi proverb

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