An artist depiction of DSCOVR, a new space weather satellite from NASA, NOAA, the Air Force and being launched by SpaceX, at its observation point (also known as L1) 1 million miles from Earth. (NOAA)

NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Air Force were prompted to delay the launch of the space weather satellite called the on until Monday, Feb. 9 at 6:07 p.m. per NOAA's satellites Twitter.

DSCOVR, as it’s referred, should reach its observing point 1 million miles from Earth in about 110 days.

“You’ll hear a lot more about space weather. Why are we interested in and concerned about it?” Stephen Volz, assistant administrator of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service, said during a press briefing Saturday. “Solar storms have the potential to provide significant impact to the Earth and to society.”

Aviation. Telecommunications. Our grid system. Solar storms could be trouble for all of these, he added. “As we rely more on technology, we become more susceptible to the impacts on those technology elements.”

DSCOVR itself isn’t new; it first saw the light of day in the 1990s, as part of a mission called Triana. Though it was ready for flight in 2001, DSCOVR ended up in storage until 2007, when NASA and NOAA pulled it out. It went back into storage until 2012, when the agencies took it out again and readied the 1,200-pound machine for its new mission.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch DSCOVR. Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of mission assurance, said Saturday the rocket is ready to go. The landing will likely be watched closely. The company is in the spotlight after a botched January 2015 landing attempt on an “autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean,” as the company described it. It failed because of incorrect amounts of hydraulic fluid. For tomorrow’s launch, SpaceX added a “reservoir of hydraulic fluid” to give them more control, according to Koenigsmann, who stressed, however, that the landing is secondary to getting DSCOVR where it needs to go.

NOAA will operate the spacecraft, with the agency’s Boulder, Colorado–based Space Weather Prediction Center processing the information and providing any necessary alerts. “Space weather is not just a national phenomenon, it’s a planetary-scale phenomenon that affects all nations on Earth,” said Tom Berger, the center’s director, during a press briefing. DSCOVR, he added, will help them “respond to anything the sun might send our way.”

of the launch begins at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday and runs through liftoff.

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