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NASA’s OCO-2 Mission
August 17 , 2025
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- NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite has been operational since 2014.
- The satellite provides the key data for the climate change research, including CO₂ emission tracking, crop monitoring, and supporting the Paris Agreement.
- The Trump administration has reportedly instructed NASA to prepare termination plans for OCO-2 and OCO-3 instruments despite ongoing operations.
- OCO-2 would be destroyed if decommissioned, as it would burn up in Earth’s atmosphere with no recovery option.
- NASA is exploring private funding to continue OCO-3 operations on the International Space Station (ISS) until the ISS mission ends.
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