Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2
Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-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 (better than 0.3%) CO2 observing satellite, after GOSAT.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 454.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
2014
36th orbital launch attempt
United Launch Alliance
84th mission
7th mission of 2014
83rd successful mission
79th consecutive successful mission
Delta II
152nd mission
1st mission of 2014
150th successful mission
97th consecutive successful mission