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Space

NASA Set For Tuesday’s OCO-2 Launch

Pat Host

Monday, June 30th, 2014

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NASA Set For Tuesday’s OCO-2 Launch

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NASA is set for Tuesday’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) launch, scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., according to launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA). The launch will take place on one of ULA’s Delta II rockets. OCO-2 will be NASA’s first dedicated Earth remote sensing satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide from space, or as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) calls it, watch Earth breathe from space. Orbital Sciences [ORB] designed, built and tested the satellite at…

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