Despite countless political setbacks, climate science technology and research continues to march forward. NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3), an instrument that measures atmospheric carbon dioxide arrived at the International Space Station early Monday morning.
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| OCO-3 in the clean room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA |
The science instrument had already been built when President Trump, in his FY2018 budget, cut funding for satellites that study Earth and climate science. Thankfully though, congress restored the funding and this past Saturday OCO-3 along with approximately 5,500 pounds of NASA cargo and other science investigations launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.
Read the story from Forbes by contributor Laura Tenenbaum - “Finally, Some Good News For Climate Science.”
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