News Archive / Tagged: Orbiting Carbon Observatory
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Falsified test results caused two mission launch failures
Laurel KornfeldMay 2nd, 2019Investigators at NASA's Launch Services Program have determined the root cause for two back-to-back launch failures of a Taurus XL rocket in 2009 and 2011.
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ULA marks 25th anniversary of Delta II rocket
Jim SharkeyFebruary 16th, 2014On Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 United Launch Alliance (ULA) commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Delta II launch vehicle. A quarter century earlier, on February 14, 1989, a Delta II lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying the GPS BII-01 satellite to orbit. While it was designed specifically to accommodate the Block II series of GPS […]
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Looking in all the wrong places: NASA’s 2014 Earth Science Mission Roundup
Josh TallisJanuary 26th, 2014Perspective is everything in space. Telescopes must have their optics calibrated to an unimaginably minimal tolerance; they must be capable of anticipating and correcting atmospheric distortions; they must sustain tremendous temperature fluctuations in the hostile vacuum of space; and, of course, they must be pointed in the right direction. For most, that direction is invariably […]
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OCO-2 Observatory Conducts Environmental Tests
NASADecember 26th, 2013NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 spacecraft is moved into a thermal vacuum chamber at Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Ariz., for a series of environmental tests. The tests confirmed the integrity of the observatory’s electrical connections and subjected the OCO-2 instrument and spacecraft to the extreme hot, cold and airless environment they […]