Looking back to Earth from DSCOVR's Falcon 9 upper stage on the way to L1. Just before sunset at 6:03pm ET on Wednesday 11 February 2015, Falcon 9 lifted off from SpaceX’s Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. carrying the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite on SpaceX’s first deep space mission.