In 2009, NASA had launched a satellite to track carbon dioxide but it plunged into the ocean after liftoff. The space agency has now decided to launch a carbon copy of the satellite and this time on a different rocket. NASA has set aside $468 million to design this satellite which will study the main driver of climate change emitted from smokestacks and tailpipes. Trees and oceans suck up some of the carbon dioxide and the rest is thrown back into the atmosphere. NASA faced a major crisis when in 2009 a rocket carrying the original satellite plummeted into the waters off Antarctica minutes after soaring from Vandenberg Air Force Base along the central California coast. The accident forced the engineers to return to the drawing board and built a near-identical twin. This new satellite will take off on Tuesday. The satellite will not use the same rocket. It will be flown on a Delta 2, a workhorse booster. The latest flight attempt has been welcomed by scientists across the world.

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