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KSC-2009-1793

NASA / KSC · 2009-02-21 · photograph (digital archive)

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, workers remove the umbilical tower attached to Orbital Sciences' Taurus XL rocket. Atop the rocket is NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, which is scheduled to launch Feb. 24 from Vandenberg. The spacecraft will collect precise global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere.

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OCO, carbon dioxide, VAFB

Credit lineKSC-2009-1793. NASA/KSC, 2009-02-21. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-1793.

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