SAN FRANCISCO — If the U.S. Congress approves plans in President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget request to rebuild the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), a climate- monitoring satellite that crashed into the ocean one year ago, the new spacecraft could be launched in early 2013, said David Crisp, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s principal investigator for the original OCO mission.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...