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US weather satellites in trouble
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...e-17071566
Quote:For most of the 1970s and '80s a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ensured that we always had two fully operational birds flying, with a backup in the barn. It was, says James Gleason, senior NASA scientist, a golden age. That all changed in 1994, when President Clinton tried to cut costs by combining the NOAA and Department of Defense weather-satellite programs. The marriage was doomed from the start. Both organizations came with top-heavy bureaucracies and their own specific needs. Together they formed a dysfunctional agency defined by budget overruns, infighting, and passive– aggressive stalemates. In all the turmoil, work on any new satellites slowed to a crawl, and any surplus dried up. By the time President Obama separated the two organizations in 2010, NOAA had to scramble to pull together a new program. As a stopgap, it sent up the only option left, our current satellite—that demonstration model, with a life span of only three to five years.
More problems w/ Clinton administration than most people realize. Bush inherited several messes.
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09-23-2014 02:17 PM |
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RE: US weather satellites in trouble
They always reference the European models when tracking hurricanes so I guess we could use those for a while until we get the US ones straigtened out.
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09-23-2014 02:41 PM |
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RE: US weather satellites in trouble
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