Sentences with phrase «us weather satellites»

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U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says proposed spending cuts in Congress could lead to big problems with the nation's weather satellites.

President Barack Obama has proposed $ 380 million for the new weather satellites.

NOAA's flagship weather satellites, the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system, would receive full funding for FY 2018.

And the daily snapshots it sends back are every bit as interesting as those recorded by the weather satellites orbiting Earth.

«The weather satellites we launch today cost billions.

Conventional weather satellites are individually constructed and can cost as much as $ 3 billion to $ 5 billion to develop and launch.

The US military is developing another set of weather satellites to replace the DMSP series, but the one carrying a microwave sensor will not launch before 2022.

It turns out that the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space - weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in California.

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellite.

For the first time, the researchers have proved that both the worldwide measurement network NDACC with its ground stations and modern weather satellites provide reliable global data for the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapor.

The language notes that NOAA's mission for polar orbiting weather satellites «continues on a tenuous path.»

Meanwhile, GOLD's position 22,000 miles above Earth will give it the chance to track changes in the ionosphere as they move across the globe, similar to how a weather satellite tracks a storm.

An earlier study based on maps of the Antarctic ice produced by American weather satellites, by Joe Jacka and colleagues at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart, Tasmania, showed a similar decline in Antarctic sea ice.

• $ 966 billion million for NOAA weather satellites, which are important early warning tools to help save lives and money, and includes funding to restore critical climate sensors that were deleted from our next generation polar satellites because of cost overruns.

JPSS - 1 would acquire a «much better quality» temperature and moisture profile than those of geostationary weather satellites, says JPSS Deputy Director Ajay Mehta.

On January 11, 2007, with no warning, China's military fired a ballistic missile at one of the country's weather satellites and blew it to bits.

Apart from ground stations, weather forecasts are heavily dependent on weather satellites for information to start or «initialize» the numerical weather prediction models that are the foundation of modern weather prediction.

While the ongoing research uses ground - based lightning detection networks, the UAH team is also working on being able to use lightning counts reported by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper aboard the GOES - R geostationary weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2016.

The study examined a 28 - year time series (1982 - 2009), which was composed of measurements taken by weather satellites passing over the polar region.

NOAA's weather satellites supply more than 90 percent of the data that go into daily and long - range forecasts, and they are critical in providing alerts of severe weather potential multiple days in advance.

In the world's poorest places, the movements and prosperity of people can be traced by the appearance of electric lights, which is recorded by US weather satellites.

Later that day, a totally unrelated 150 - foot - wide asteroid named 2012 DA14 made a close approach, coming within about 17,000 miles of hitting us — some 5,000 miles closer than many TV and weather satellites.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): The bill provides $ 5.4 billion for NOAA, $ 126 million above 2014, and includes funding to keep several troubled weather satellites on track.

To help refine their models, many researchers look to data from weather satellites collected since the 1980s.

Until now, NOAA has gathered data by building and launching its own expensive weather satellites rather than buying data from private companies.

Plagued by cost overruns on its own satellites, NOAA has been pressured by Congress to explore commercial weather satellites, which included a mandate for the commercial weather pilot in its 2016 appropriations.

The PFO program is made up of two new polar orbiting weather satellites (JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4) that will ensure continuity of data.

The manufacturer, Martin Marietta Astro Space, also built the Mars Observer and a civilian weather satellite, both of which also went mute this summer.

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a plan that would shift $ 1.6 billion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to NASA for the space agency to build and manage four weather satellite programs.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

The budget asks for $ 2 billion to push forward with the next generation of weather satellites, including $ 380 million to begin to develop a Polar Follow - On satellite program, designed to fill the data gap between the current Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite with NASA and the planned Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), of which the first satellite is scheduled to launch in early 2017.

A new study shows that images of a meteor's streak through the atmosphere taken by Earth - gazing probes, including weather satellites, can pin down the object's orbit, enabling scientists to check and see whether another planet - threatening object is traveling in the same trajectory.

The proposal would retain support for NOAA's troubled $ 11.3 billion Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), a series of two advanced weather satellites, the first of which is set for launch late this summer, and its $ 11.3 billion line of four new geostationary satellites, the first of which, GOES - 16, launched late last year.

The fate of two further planned polar satellites, JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4, remain uncertain in the proposal, which says NOAA will obtain cost savings in the program by «better reflecting the actual risk of a gap in polar satellite coverage,» along with opening up more opportunities for startup commercial weather satellites to provide data.

The law, meanwhile, maintains full support for NOAA's troubled $ 11.3 billion Joint Polar Satellite System, a series of two advanced weather satellites, the first of which is set for launch late this summer, and its $ 11.3 billion line of four new geostationary satellites, the first of which, GOES - 16, launched late last year.

«It has really been our first weather satellite on another planet,» says Grinspoon.

Scientists at UW — Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) observed the eclipse through the eye of one of the world's most advanced weather satellites, GOES - 16.

That's an instrument on the latest weather satellite — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES - 16.

The image was captured by a European weather satellite.

To answer that, Swap used data from weather satellites.

Now she works on a weather satellite called S - NPP, which is currently in orbit, and another called JPSS that is slated to launch next year.

Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have manufactured and tested a new type of colloidal quantum dots (CQD), that could lead to much cheaper, spray - on solar cells, as well as better LEDs, lasers and weather satellites.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Powered aloft by its lone RD - 180 rocket engine and four Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ60A solid rocket boosters, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 launched the GOES - S weather satellite into orbit on behalf of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering proposals to share L band spectrum in or near bands currently used by weather satellites, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and aircraft navigation systems.

On February 17, 2012, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on President Obama's FY2013 budget request for research and development, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates the nation's civil weather satellites.

The House Approrpriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) held a hearing on June 21, 2012 on financial misconduct at the National Weather Service, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that uses data from the nation's weather satellites.

By the 1980's, weather satellites could measure rainfall and cloud cover all over the planet and infer things like air pressure by combining with weather station data.

Generally speaking, the U.S. has put a lot of eggs in very few baskets and when you look at the limited number of missile warning communication satellites, weather satellites and even NRO satellites, an aggressor could severely disable and even degrade U.S. capabilities with only a handful of successful shoot downs of U.S. satellites.»