{"id":86760,"date":"2010-06-24T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-launch-nasas-oco-2-mission\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:38:11","slug":"orbital-sciences-to-launch-nasas-oco-2-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-launch-nasas-oco-2-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences to Launch NASA\u2019s OCO-2 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-24-10] <strong>NASA<\/strong> has selected <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket from Vandenberg\u2019s <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> Base, Calif., the agency announced.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The total value of the OCO-2 launch services contract is about $70 million. The estimated cost includes the task ordered launch service for a Taurus XL 3110 rocket, plus additional services under other contracts for payload processing, OCO-2 mission unique support, launch vehicle integration and tracking, data and telemetry support.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA\u2019s OCO-2 mission is dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. The spacecraft aims to provide the first complete picture of human and natural carbon dioxide sources. The OCO-2 spacecraft will replace OCO-1, which was lost during a 2009 launch vehicle failure.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-24-10] NASA has selected Orbital Sciences to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket from Vandenberg\u2019s U.S. Air Force Base, Calif., the agency announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The total value of the OCO-2 launch services contract is about $70 million. The estimated cost includes the task ordered launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-86760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86760"}],"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=86760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}