Preparations Made for OCO-2 Mission23/06/2010 |
| NASA has selected Orbital Sciences, USA, to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission. OCO-2 is a NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. 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 USD70 million. |
|
Carbon dioxide is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in the Earth's climate. OCO-2 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. The OCO-2 spacecraft will replace OCO-1, lost during a launch vehicle failure in 2009.
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.
The OCO-2 project is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Ca, USA. NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for launch vehicle program management of the Taurus XL 3110 rocket.
Supplier: NASA More news from this supplier: Interferometry Study of Hawaiian Volcano Drought Monitoring Using Gravity Achievements In Earth Remote Sensing Recognised Improved Global Topographic Map NASA Polar Observation Satellite Gearing Up for Launch NASA Flights to View Air Pollution Geophysics, Geodynamics and Space Support Mapping Tropical Forest Carbon Storage Mississippi Memphis Flooding from Space Tornado Tracks Seen from Space Community Heritage Project Using GIS Visualisation Teaching Award for Russell G. Congalton ION Autonomous Snowplough Competition Winners GeoCore 2012 with Lidar API First Real-time Seafloor Earthquake Observatory CyberCity 3D Launches 3D Solar Buildings Second UltraCamX for Valley Air Photos Capacity-building to Develop Afghan Mining Feasibility Reports Completed for NSDI in Uganda and Jordan Five-metre Imagery for Vegetation Analysis 
Comments (0): |
| News |
| News > Preparations Made for OCO-2 Mission |
|
Interactive |
3D Scanning of Historic Sugar Factories |
|
The Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies at the University of South Florida, USA, recently worked with the Florida Park Service on a project to document the remains of several historic sugar-mill sites in the State Parks to create as-builts to be used in preservation and conservation of these resources. The FARO LS 880, along with GPS and total station georeferencing and colour imaging, was used on these projects.
|
| Last 5 items: |
| 3D Scanning of Historic Sugar Factories |
| Road Improvement Survey with UAV |
| 3D BIM + money = 5D |
| Setting up a survey in a swamp |
| Launch of the 9th Baidu Satellite |
