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Will NASA Kill a Pair of Critical Climate Satellites?
09 Sep 2025 03:42 GMT
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The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and -3, or OCO-2 and … satellite failed in 2009.
An artist’s rendering of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory … -2. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
OCO-3 …
Nassar said the OCO satellites provide the most …
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Two valuable satellites are in ‘perfect health’
05 Sep 2025 23:01 GMT
… public health.
Before the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions were approved by … proposal.
After the first OCO satellite failed to launch in … . As for the other satellite, OCO 2, the fastest option … have climate monitoring satellites, OCO-2 and OCO-3 are more …
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GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
06 Sep 2025 01:40 GMT
… poised to shut off OCO-2 and OCO-3 instead of … come closest to replicating OCO-2 and OCO-3, but it … groups have launched their own satellites to measure atmospheric chemicals, … Coalition, launched its first small satellite last year. This nonprofit consortium …
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Opinion: Trump wants to disable NASA satellites measuring C02. Congress must not let him.
28 Aug 2025 11:06 GMT
… value of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions is enormous.
These satellites do what ground … fluctuate continuously. Insights from these OCO satellites inform the everyday decisions of … all depend on satellites like OCO-2 and OCO-3.
Humanity wants …
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Column: Trump wants NASA to burn a crucial satellite to cinders, killing research into climate change
25 Aug 2025 11:04 GMT
… reasonable metric, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory has been a spectacular success … the cost of maintaining a satellite in orbit is nominal. … a satellite into space and keep it there.
The OCO project … carbon copy of the original satellite, and it was launched …
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Hiltzik: Trump wants NASA to burn a crucial satellite to cinders, killing research into climate change
19 Aug 2025 10:12 GMT
… reasonable metric, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory has been a spectacular success … the cost of maintaining a satellite in orbit is nominal. … a satellite into space and keep it there.
The OCO project … carbon copy of the original satellite, and it was launched …
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Funding Cuts on Satellites, Observatories Are Creating Climate Change Blind Spots
15 Aug 2025 16:35 GMT
… long-term monitoring and satellite missions provide the foundational … Loa Observatory
CRASH LANDING Satellites such as the … international emissions pledges.
Losing satellite missions
The view from … Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO-2 and OCO-3), which provide …
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The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry
13 Aug 2025 11:13 GMT
… missions, known collectively as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, are some of the many … impact
Together, the OCO-2, a freestanding satellite, and OCO-3, which is … sector in operating OCO or other Earth-observing satellites can present complications …
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Carbon Dioxide Measuring Satellites Could Be Deorbited Under Trump Budget Proposal
13 Aug 2025 08:24 GMT
One of two orbiting Carbon Observatory instruments, known as OCO-3, in 2019. NASA has … start planning to deorbit two satellites essential in monitoring carbon dioxide … data, the satellite missions, known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO), are …
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A Tapestry of Tales: 10th Anniversary Reflections from NASA’s OCO-2 Mission
12 Aug 2025 20:50 GMT
… 2, 2024, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) celebrated 10 years since … awaiting the launch of the OCO satellite into the cosmos.
Shortly after … that satellites, such as OCO-2 and OCO-3, study from space.
OCO-2 (and OCO …
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