print email comment close NASA: Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) URL: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/ Description: 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). Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) LII Database Information: Record 27992 created by Maria Brandt on 02/24/2009 Last modification on 03/02/2009 Published: 03/05/2009   LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27992