OCO 2

Orbiting Carbon Observatory

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General

Designation	40059 / 14035A
Launch date	2 Jul 2014
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Observation of high atmosphere
Perigee/Apogee	705 km
Inclination	98.2°
Period	98 min
Launch vehicle	Delta 2 #367

Built for NASA JPL, worth $70 million
Will replace OCO, lost in launch failure. Joined the A-train in Aug 2014.

To studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in the Earth's climate. It will provide the first complete picture of human and natural carbon dioxide sources and "sinks," the places where the gas is pulled out of the atmosphere and stored. It will map the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.

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External resources

http://www.nasa.gov/oco-2/

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/
sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	OSC
Platform
Mass at launch	449 kg
Dry mass
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power
Design lifetime	2 years

Near-IR spectrometer with 3 bands.

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