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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
09:56:00
Wednesday July 2, 2014
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
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.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
1 Payload
454 kilograms
Agency
ULARocket
Height: 38.9m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 2,703 kg
Liftoff Thrust
2,533 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 3m
Height: 8.9m
Stages
2
Strap-ons
3
152nd
Mission
1st
Mission of 2014
84th
Mission
7th
Mission of 2014
36th
Orbital launch attempt