Is it legal to pull the plug on a fully paid-for, functioning NASA satellite that’s the gold standard for monitoring global carbon? That’s the question now ringing out through the halls of Washington ...
“Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” said David Crisp, the atmospheric physicist who led the Orbiting ...
As Congress debates NASA’s 2026 budget, two small but mighty satellites hang in limbo: the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, specifically OCO-2 and OCO-3. Tasked with tracking carbon dioxide and plant ...
(CNN) — NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and ...
NASA is ready to launch a new space instrument that will use the vantage point of the International Space Station to monitor Earth’s carbon cycle. A follow-on to the still-active OCO-2 mission, OCO-3 ...
After two launch failures with Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Taurus XL solid-fuel rocket, NASA has decided to try to launch its replacement Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) on another vehicle. The ...
As Congress debates NASA’s 2026 budget, two small but mighty satellites hang in limbo: the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, specifically OCO-2 and OCO-3. Tasked with tracking carbon dioxide and plant ...
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