What does OCO stand for?

Orbiting Carbon Observatory

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A rocket carrying NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which researchers had hoped to use, crashed in February.

United States: NASA Grant Will Fund UI Study of Link Between ...

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which failed to launch in February this year, would have offered proof that greenhouse gas emissions could be monitored from space, as well as provided baseline data on CO2 emissions trends from a sample of cities and power plants, according to the report.

Current methods for monitoring CO2 emissions have limitations

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory splashed into the ocean near Antarctica on Feb.

Hardware problem blamed on NASA satellite crash

A malfunction during the rocket ride toward space sent the Orbiting Carbon Observatory plummeting into the Indian Ocean near Antarctica.

NASA satellite fails to reach orbit; Rocket falls into the Indian ...

The 986lb spacecraft carrying the orbiting carbon observatory - designed to map CO2 released into the atmosphere-was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California shortly before 10am.

ROCKET HORROR SHOW; pounds 200m eco satellite crashes in sea after ...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), the culminaton of a nine-year project designed to study climate change, plunged into the ocean near the Antarctic on Tuesday after failing to separate from its launch rocket.

Nasa climate satellite crashes

The mission of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is to map the global distribution of carbon dioxide and study how that distribution changes over time, NASA said in a statement.

NASA launches satellite to monitor carbon dioxide

The mission of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) was to map the global distribution of carbon dioxide and study how that distribution changes over time, NASA said in a statement.

Satellite mission to monitor carbon dioxide fails: NASA