In 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), a satellite designed to take precise measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help guide the response to climate change. Unfortunately, the satellite did not make it into its planned orbit. So, in 2014, NASA launched the replacement OCO-2, which has been collecting a huge number of high-resolution measurements, which provides greater spatial distribution of carbon dioxide over the entire planet. These measurements are combined with data from the ground-based network to provide scientists with the information that they need to better understand the processes that regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide. This enhanced understanding is essential for improving predictions of future atmospheric carbon dioxide increases and its impact on the climate. The satellite actually performed a lot better than anyone expected, becoming the ‘gold standard’ in space-based carbon dioxide measurements1.
The additional OCO-3, is a sensor designed to investigate important questions about the distribution of carbon dioxide especially relating to growing urban populations and changing patterns of fossil fuel combustion. This was developed and assembled using spare materials from the successful development and launch of OCO-2 and was launched in May, 2019, and is hosted in the Japanese Experiment Module aboard the International Space Station2.
NASA is planning to decommission this satellite, and others, beginning as soon as October this year. These satellites will be ‘abandoned’ and allowed to eventually burn up in the atmosphere as their orbits decay. This is supposedly simply a budget cut, but people involved in climate science state that it marks the latest step by the Mango Paedo administration to scale back federal climate science3.
In Mango Paedo world, if you don’t know about it, then it isn’t happening. This is typical of those who want to deny science, whether it be vaccines, evolution, biological sex, gender, or climate science. They are the enemies of knowledge.
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