Liftoff! NASA Finally Launches Major Climate Satellite After 2009 Failure

Third time's a charm for NASA

The space agency successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket carrying its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to space early Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite with track greenhouse gases in an effort to uncover clues about climate change

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The successful liftoff comes after two failed attempts: one on Tuesday due to a technical error. The one in 2009, however, was catastrophic, and NASA lost a similar satellite that was also set to study carbon dioxide. It took a nosedive into the ocean near Antarctica after a hardware failure with the rocket. Read more...

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