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Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2

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Launch dateJuly 2, 2014
Orbit height705 km
Periods 1. 6 hours
Cost467. 7 million USD (2014)
Launch site Vandenberg Air Force Base
Wavelengths2. 06 microns; 1. 61 microns; 0. 765 microns
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Date of Upd.
ID1967397
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About Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2


Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 is an American environmental science satellite which launched on 2 July 2014. A NASA mission, it is a replacement for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory which was lost in a launch failure in 2009. It is the second successful high-precision CO 2 observing satellite, after GOSAT.

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