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Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

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312 points trauco | 4 comments | 29 Jun 25 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.751s | source
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Animats ◴[29 Jun 25 18:18 UTC] No.44415142[source]▶
It's part of the Administration's war on ... Florida?
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ars ◴[29 Jun 25 20:46 UTC] No.44416292[source]▶
This is such a bad article. They shut down this specific program in 2015, and switched to JPSS instead.

There is no war on anyone, and this has nothing to do with Trump, DOGS, or Climate change. Rather there were too many satellite failures, leaving just a single operating one in orbit.

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1. BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[29 Jun 25 21:28 UTC] No.44416577[source]▶
There was no reason not to continue providing the data from the satellite. It’s still operational.
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2. BenjiWiebe ◴[29 Jun 25 22:29 UTC] No.44417152[source]▶
I agree with both of you. Unnecessary fear mongering, but also a shortsighted pointless (malicious?) move.
3. ars ◴[30 Jun 25 00:41 UTC] No.44418013[source]▶
Funding was stopped by congress in 2015. The time to complain about this was 10 years ago.
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4. BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[01 Jul 25 01:05 UTC] No.44429571[source]▶
No the time to complain about them ceasing data provision is right now because it just happened.