NASA Taps Orbital Sciences For OCO-2 Launch

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE: NASA has picked Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The estimated total cost for the launch services is $70 million. Designed to...

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