{"id":77042,"date":"2014-07-02T23:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-launches-orbital-built-oco-2-satellite-for-nasa\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T23:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:58:48","slug":"ula-launches-orbital-built-oco-2-satellite-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-launches-orbital-built-oco-2-satellite-for-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Launches Orbital-built OCO 2 Satellite for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-02-2014] A <b>United Launch Alliance <\/b>(ULA) Delta 2 rocket successfully carried <b>NASA<\/b>\u2019s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO 2) into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. <b>Orbital Sciences<\/b>, the satellite\u2019s manufacturer, is responsible for in-orbit operations for the duration of the program.<\/p>\n<p>The OCO 2 launch is the first of two Delta 2 missions planned for this year, and is ULA\u2019s seventh launch of 2014. The Delta 2 7320 configuration used an RS-27A main engine for the first stage and an AJ10-118K engine for the second stage, both built by <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/b>, as well as three strap-on solid rocket motors built by <b>Alliant Techsystems <\/b>(ATK).<\/p>\n<p>OCO 2 is the first of a six satellite international Afternoon (A-train) constellation. With a design life of 2 years, OCO 2 is NASA\u2019s first remote sensing satellite dedicated to studying carbon dioxide emissions. It is the 151st satellite built by Orbital Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-02-2014] A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 2 rocket successfully carried NASA\u2019s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO 2) into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Orbital Sciences, the satellite\u2019s manufacturer, is responsible for in-orbit operations for the duration of the program. The OCO 2 launch is the first of two Delta 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}