CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- OCO-3-on-ISS
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Full Name
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ISS/Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3
aka ISS/OCO-3
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Status
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Operational (nominal)
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Mission Agencies
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NASA
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Launch Date
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04 May 2019
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Mission Links
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mission site | data access portal
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EOL Date
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Sep 2026
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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25544 (TLE)
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International Designator
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1998-067A
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Orbit Type
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Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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93 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Ascending
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Orbit Inclination
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51.6 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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417 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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High resolution carbon dioxide measurements to characterize sources and sinks on regional scales and quantify their variability over the seasonal cycle.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
No FedEO OpenSearch datasets found.
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