{"id":36,"date":"2014-07-10T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T10:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/?p=36"},"modified":"2015-10-12T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:21:56","slug":"jpl-launches-the-oco-2-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/2014\/07\/10\/jpl-launches-the-oco-2-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"JPL launches the OCO-2 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/case.edu\/jennyb\/_\/rsrc\/1405014676832\/news\/jpllaunchestheoco-2satellite\/IMG_3129.PNG?height=133&amp;width=200\" alt=\"Delta-II rocket ready to carry the OCO-2 satellite into space.\" \/><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/case.edu\/jennyb\/_\/rsrc\/1405014676853\/news\/jpllaunchestheoco-2satellite\/OCO-Observatory-High.jpg?height=200&amp;width=200\" alt=\"\" \/> The last couple of weeks I have been visiting my collaborators at\u00a0NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">JPL<\/a>).\u00a0It has been a productive time and exciting. \u00a0The highlight of the visit was witnessing the launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/oco.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">OCO-2<\/a>) satellite from Vandenberg\u00a0Air Force Base. \u00a0Tensions were high as the original OCO satellite that\u00a0was launched in 2009 crashed into the ocean after the rocket that\u00a0carried it failed. \u00a0This they time around everything went smoothly and the satellite is currently maneuvering to it&#8217;s location in front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/1116\/?CFID=e737cd80-7085-41eb-aa33-d48a1be74314&amp;CFTOKEN=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A-train<\/a>. \u00a0We all look forward to the day that data start streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The last couple of weeks I have been visiting my collaborators at\u00a0NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">JPL<\/a>).\u00a0It has been a productive time and exciting. \u00a0The highlight of the visit was witnessing the launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/oco.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">OCO-2<\/a>) satellite from Vandenberg\u00a0Air Force Base. \u00a0Tensions were high as the original OCO satellite that\u00a0was launched in 2009 crashed into the ocean after the rocket that\u00a0carried it failed. \u00a0This they time around everything went smoothly and the satellite is currently maneuvering to it&#8217;s location in front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/1116\/?CFID=e737cd80-7085-41eb-aa33-d48a1be74314&amp;CFTOKEN=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A-train<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/2014\/07\/10\/jpl-launches-the-oco-2-satellite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JPL launches the OCO-2 satellite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/jenny-brynjarsdottir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}