Owner's manual
Orbital Sciences Corporation
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OCO-2
Mission Partners
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Project management, system engineering, ground data
systems, instrument and operations lead
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Spacecraft design, integration and test, launch operations
and spacecraft ight operations
Science Team
International science team with co-investigators from
the United States, France, Germany, New Zealand, and
Australia
Specications
Spacecraft
Satellite Mass: 455 kg (1,003 lb.)
Solar Arrays: Triple junction GaAs
Power: 410 W orbit average
Communications: S-band transceiver and X-band science data
transmitter
Stabilization: 3-axis, zero momentum
Propulsion: Hydrazine
Orbit: 705 km, ying in polar, sun-synchronous formation
with EOS A-train
Mission Life: 24 months
Status: At launch site
Payload
Instrument: 3 grating spectrometers
Bandpasses: 0.76, 1.58, 2.06 microns
Instantaneous
Field of View: 1.29 km x 2.25 km
Swath: 10 km
Launch
Launch Vehicle: Delta II
Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Date: July 1, 2014
The OCO-2 satellite at Orbital's Gilbert, Arizona satellite
manufacturing facility