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 NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest

Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft - NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide - has left its nest at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and has arrived at its integration and test site in Gilbert, Ariz.
A truck carrying the OCO-2 instrument left JPL before dawn on Tuesday, May 9, to begin the trek to Orbital Science Corporation's Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, southeast of Phoenix, where it arrived that afternoon. The instrument will be unpacked, inspected and tested. Later this month, it will be integrated with the Orbital-built OCO-2 spacecraft bus, which arrived in Gilbert on April 30.
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The space agency announced recently that it has picked Orbital Sciences Corp. and its Taurus XL rocket to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission.
Taurus and its cargo are expected to blast off in February 2013, four years after the first OCO mission ended abruptly when the rocket failed to lift the satellite into orbit.
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NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission. The spacecraft will fly in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The total cost of the OCO-2 launch services is approximately $70 million. The estimated cost includes the task ordered launch service for a Taurus XL 3110 rocket, plus additional services under other contracts for payload processing, OCO-2 mission-unique support, launch vehicle integration, and tracking, data and telemetry support.
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Scientists who want to measure the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have run into an accountant's worst nightmare: They know how much carbon dioxide we're producing, but they don't know where it's all going.
Those scientists' hopes for finding the missing carbon dioxide were dashed when the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) fell into the Antarctic Ocean last February.
But almost as soon as the first OCO satellite crashed, the project's team began working on a proposal for the OCO-2 that eventually made its way into NASA's proposed 2011 budget. The proposal seeks to rebuild and re-fly a close replica of the 10-year-old design, or what the team lovingly refers to as the "carbon copy."
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