Orbiting Carbon Observatory

Quality:

Orbiting Carbon Observatory - NASA climate satellite destroyed during a 2009 launch failure. Article “Orbiting Carbon Observatory” in English Wikipedia has 55.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Orbiting Carbon Observatory” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Orbiting Carbon Observatory”, its content was written by 101 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 250 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 127 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1128 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #779 in February 2009
• Global: #2142 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6662 in February 2009
• Global: #15084 in February 2009

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		55.4026
2	German (de) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		35.5375
3	French (fr) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		35.4349
4	Simple English (simple) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		34.0623
5	Finnish (fi) OCO		27.8509
6	Persian (fa) رصدخانه مدارگرد کربن		25.5264
7	Arabic (ar) المرصد المداري للكربون		23.4208
8	Japanese (ja) 軌道上炭素観測衛星		23.1498
9	Hungarian (hu) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		13.2735
10	Polish (pl) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		12.3607

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		235 557
2	French (fr) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		21 670
3	German (de) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		14 558
4	Japanese (ja) 軌道上炭素観測衛星		14 542
5	Polish (pl) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		6 801
6	Finnish (fi) OCO		4 936
7	Hungarian (hu) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		3 102
8	Arabic (ar) المرصد المداري للكربون		2 827
9	Portuguese (pt) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		2 695
10	Vietnamese (vi) OCO		2 383

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		304
2	French (fr) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		104
3	Japanese (ja) 軌道上炭素観測衛星		55
4	Simple English (simple) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		30
5	Vietnamese (vi) OCO		25
6	German (de) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		22
7	Arabic (ar) المرصد المداري للكربون		21
8	Lithuanian (lt) Orbitinė anglies observatorija		15
9	Polish (pl) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		15
10	Finnish (fi) OCO		13

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		101
2	French (fr) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		36
3	German (de) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		34
4	Hungarian (hu) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		14
5	Finnish (fi) OCO		12
6	Simple English (simple) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		11
7	Vietnamese (vi) OCO		10
8	Arabic (ar) المرصد المداري للكربون		9
9	Polish (pl) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		8
10	Japanese (ja) 軌道上炭素観測衛星		6

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		1
2	Japanese (ja) 軌道上炭素観測衛星		1
3	Arabic (ar) المرصد المداري للكربون		0
4	German (de) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		0
5	Persian (fa) رصدخانه مدارگرد کربن		0
6	Finnish (fi) OCO		0
7	French (fr) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		0
9	Indonesian (id) Orbiting Carbon Observatory		0
10	Lithuanian (lt) Orbitinė anglies observatorija		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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