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.
Not exact matches
For years, concern about NOAA's
troubled polar
satellite program has focused on climate sensors, six of which were stripped from JPSS's predecessor, NPOESS, in 2006, to preserve
weather data.
A NASA
satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large
weather events such as El Niño, with some
troubling implications for future climate change.
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 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.