Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
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Launch date | July 2, 2014 |
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Orbit height | 705 km |
Periods | 1. 6 hours |
Cost | 467. 7 million USD (2014) |
Launch site | Vandenberg Air Force Base |
Wavelengths | 2. 06 microns; 1. 61 microns; 0. 765 microns |
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ID | 1967397 |
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.