{"id":17632,"date":"2026-10-13T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/caltech-takes-over-two-nasa-earth-science-missions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:28:17","slug":"caltech-takes-over-two-nasa-earth-science-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/caltech-takes-over-two-nasa-earth-science-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltech Takes Over Two NASA Earth Science Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>\n<p>The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload, located on the International Space Station, is being transferred to Caltech to operate alongside the free-flying OCO-2.<\/p>\n<p>                Credit: Christina Koch\/NASA           <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>                                                                              SALT LAKE CITY\u2014NASA is loaning its two Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) science missions to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) which will operate them for the next four years. The space agency will retain ownership of OCO-2, which orbits about 440 mi. above Earth, and OCO-3, which is&#8230;                                                                                                                                                                       <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/irene-klotz\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Klotz<\/a>                     <\/p>\n<p>Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload, located on the International Space Station, is being transferred to Caltech to operate alongside the free-flying OCO-2.<br \/>\n Credit: Christina Koch\/NASA SALT LAKE CITY\u2014NASA is loaning its two Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) science missions to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) which will operate them for the next four years. The space agency will retain ownership of OCO-2, which orbits about 440 mi. above Earth, and OCO-3, which is&#8230; Irene Klotz Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turkeynews24.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}