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I see 3 possibilities: They're cutting it off to limit bad news about climate change, for political reasons. Or they're trying to set up some private company to
by Buttons840 1y ago
I see 3 possibilities: They're cutting it off to limit bad news about climate change, for political reasons. Or they're trying to set up some private company to sell the same data.
Or (tinfoil hat on) they're going to do something the raw microwave data might expose and so they're trying to keep the microwave data secret.
- CharlesW 1y agoThere's no mystery, this is the execution of Project 2025. https://envirodatagov.org/project-2025-annotation/ https://envirodatagov.org/project-2025-annotation/
- sieabahlpark 1y ago[dead]
- ars 1y agoThere's a 4th possibility: This program was cancelled in 2015 and it finally ended. The replacement is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Polar_Satellite_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Polar_Satellite_System
- recury 1y agoThe JPSS is complementary. The replacement for the DMSP satellites are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_System_Follow-on_Microwave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_System_Follow-on_Micro...