. . . will have a bird’s-eye view of sea-level changes:

NASA global warming satellite lands in ocean
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—- A rocket carrying a NASA global-warming [sic!]satellite splashed into the ocean near Antarctica early Tuesday after a failed launch.
The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
But minutes later, a cover protecting the satellite during launch failed to separate from the rocket, a preliminary investigation found.
The 986-pound satellite was supposed to be placed into an orbit some 400 miles high to track carbon dioxide emissions.
“Certainly for the science community it’s a huge disappointment,” said John Brunschwyler, Taurus project manager for Orbital Sciences Corp., which built the rocket and satellite. “It’s taken so long to get here.”
The project was nine years in the making.