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NASA's Carbon-Counting Spacecraft Arrives at Launch Site
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/april/nasas-carbon-counting-spacecraft-arrives-at-launch-site/

ЦитироватьA NASA spacecraft designed to make precise measurements of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final preparations for launch.
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 arrived Wednesday at its launch site on California's central coast after travelling from Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Ariz. The spacecraft now will undergo final tests and then be integrated on top of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket in preparation for a planned July 1 launch.

The observatory is NASA's first satellite mission dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, a critical component of Earth's carbon cycle that is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate. It replaces a nearly identical spacecraft lost due to a rocket launch mishap in February 2009.

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OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding both the sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and how they are changing over time. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution more than 200 years ago, the burning of fossil fuels, as well as other human activities, have led to an unprecedented buildup in this greenhouse gas, which is now at its highest level in at least 800,000 years. Human activities have increased the level of carbon dioxide by more than 25 percent in just the past half century.

Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap the sun's heat within Earth's atmosphere, warming it and keeping it at habitable temperatures. However, scientists have concluded that increases in carbon dioxide resulting from human activities have thrown Earth's natural carbon cycle off balance, increasing global temperatures and changing the planet's climate.

While scientists understand carbon dioxide emissions resulting from burning fossil fuels and can estimate their quantity quite accurately, their understanding of carbon dioxide from other human-produced and natural sources is relatively less quantified. Atmospheric measurements collected at ground stations indicate less than half of the carbon dioxide humans emit into the atmosphere stays there. The rest is believed to be absorbed by the ocean and plants on land.

But the locations and identity of the natural "sinks" absorbing this carbon dioxide currently are not well understood. OCO-2 will help solve this critical scientific puzzle. Quantifying how the natural processes are helping remove carbon from the atmosphere will help scientists construct better models to predict how much carbon dioxide these sinks will be able to absorb in the future.

The mission's innovative technologies will enable space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the sensitivity, resolution and coverage needed to characterize the sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural sinks that moderate their buildup, at regional scales, everywhere on Earth. The mission's data will help scientists reduce uncertainties in forecasts of how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere and improve the accuracy of global climate change predictions.

In addition to measuring carbon dioxide, OCO-2 will monitor the "glow" of the chlorophyll contained within plants, a phenomenon known as solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, opening up potential new applications for studying vegetation on land. NASA researchers, in collaboration with Japanese and other international colleagues, have discovered that data from Japan's GOSAT (Greenhouse gases observing SATellite, also known as Ibuki in Japan), along with other satellites, including OCO-2, can help monitor this "signature" of photosynthesis on a global scale.

The observatory will fly in a 438-mile (705-kilometer) altitude, near-polar orbit in formation with the five other satellites that are part of the Afternoon, or "A-Train" Constellation. This international constellation of Earth-observing satellites circles Earth once every 98 minutes in a sun-synchronous orbit that crosses the equator near 1:30 p.m. local time and repeats the same ground track every 16 days. OCO-2 will be inserted at the head of the A-Train. Once in this orbit, OCO-2 is designed to operate for at least two years. This coordinated flight formation will enable researchers to correlate OCO-2 data with data from other NASA and partner spacecraft.

OCO-2 is a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Program mission managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Orbital built the spacecraft and provides mission operations under JPL's leadership. The science instrument was built by JPL, based on the instrument design co-developed for the original OCO mission by Hamilton Sundstrand in Pomona, Calif. NASA's Launch Services Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for launch management. JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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NASA | April 30, 2014





Старый

Ну что, востребовалась старая надёжная лошадь Дельта-2? :)
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

che wi

ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
Ну что, востребовалась старая надёжная лошадь Дельта-2?
два пуска в этом году


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ЦитироватьOn Wed, the 6.6-foot-long, hexagonal #OCO-2 spacecraft will be loaded with propellants for its attitude control jets.
https://twitter.com/NASA_LSP/status/466250858444099584


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Delta II to Launch NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Mission
http://www.ulalaunch.com/delta-ii-to-launch-nasas-OCO-2.aspx

ЦитироватьRocket/Payload:  A Delta II 7320 will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission for NASA

Date/Site/Launch Time: Tuesday, July 1, 2014, Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

Mission Description: The observatory is NASA's first satellite mission dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, a critical component of Earth's carbon cycle that is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate.

Launch Notes: OCO-2 will be ULA's seventh launch of 2014 and 84th overall.


Salo

"Были когда-то и мы рысаками!!!"

che wi

ЦитироватьPreparations underway to lift OCO-2, to the mobile service tower. The spacecraft will be mated with the Delta II.
https://twitter.com/IamOCO2/status/479076275844550656


che wi

ЦитироватьWEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014
Storable hypergolic propellants are being loaded into the Delta 2 rocket's second stage today and tomorrow in preparation for Tuesday's predawn blastoff.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d367/status.html


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@NASA_LSP

ЦитироватьDelta II second stage fuel loaded, OCO-2 batteries charging today.


Liss

"Па-берегись!"

ЦитироватьNAVAREA XII 209/14
 EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC. 
 CALIFORNIA. 
 ROCKETS. 
 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0926Z TO 1057Z DAILY 
 01 THRU 06 JUL IN AREAS BOUND BY: 
 A. 34-01N 120-43W, 34-05N 121-00W, 
 34-23N 120-53W, 34-19N 120-37W. 
 B. 12-29N 125-46W, 12-39N 126-37W, 
 17-45N 125-32W, 17-35N 124-40W. 
 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 061157Z JUL 14.//
 Authority: WESTERN RANGE OP W7802 032217Z JUN 14.
 Date: 
 Cancel: 06115700 Jul 14

Цитировать!CARF 06/204 (KZLA A1700/14) ZLA AIRSPACE 2 ROPS AIROP DO-1403 ASCENT DISPERTION STAGE 1 STATIONARY ALTITUDE RESERVATION WITHIN AREA DEFINED AS 3401N12043W TO 3405N12100W TO 3447N12043W TO 3444N12031W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1407010941-1407011024

!CARF 06/205 ZAK AIRSPACE DCC 2 ROPS AIROP DO-1403 STAGE 1 STATIONARY ALTITUDE RESERVATION WITHIN AREA DEFINED AS 1229N12546W TO 1239N12637W TO 1745N12532W TO 1735N12440W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1407010941-1407011024
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che wi

ЦитироватьOur next Earth mission is GO for launch!

At the Launch Readiness Review Sunday, managers gave a go to proceed toward the launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (‪#‎OCO2‬) atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 5:56 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 1, from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. There are no issues or concerns with either OCO-2 or the Delta II.

https://www.facebook.com/ulalaunch/posts/10152433098525379