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NASA: Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)
Background about "NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite [which] failed to reach orbit after its ... liftoff Feb. 24 [2009] from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base." Includes a mission overview ("the first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the most significant human-produced greenhouse gas and the principal human-produced driver of climate change"), and material about spacecraft and instruments, human-generated carbon, and the failed launch. From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/

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