The Most Important Satellite You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
#NASA has a pair of #OCO carbon monitoring satellites. They have 10 years of baseline data, no global redundancy, and an unplanned, near-magic ability to monitor plant respiratory cycles. They can predict crop yields better than USDA techniques, and they can predict large scale #drought.
The program cost $750M to start up, costs $16M-17M annually. The US has budgeted $0, and plans to deorbit and burn these satellites.
So, uh... Don't do that? Please?
#Geheimhaltung & #Drohungen: #Umweltsatelliten sollen zum Absturz gebracht werden.
Die Mission liefert wichtige #Klima- sowie #Agrardaten und misst #Kohlendioxid und #Pflanzenwachstum rund um den #Globus. Diese Daten werden von #Wissenschaftlern, #Öl- und #Gasunternehmen und #Landwirten genutzt.
Die #OCO-Mission verwendet zwei identische Messgeräte. Ein Gerät ist an einem eigenständigen Satelliten befestigt, während das andere an der Internationalen #RaumstationISS...
#Fediverse science ppl - please push this topic into your channels / bubbles.
We - need - OCO !
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NASA announced it will consider proposals from private companies and universities that are willing to take on the cost of maintaining the device that is attached to the International Space Station, as well as another device that measures ozone in the atmosphere.
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https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7B21E0270C-BC1F-EFC4-3D87-30713B5FF373%7D&path=&method=init
OC: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened
#ClimateChange #Science #climate #oco #Orbitingcarbonobservatory
Sollen erfolgreiche Klimasatelliten im Wert von 750 Millionen Dollar zerstört werden, nur weil sie vermeintlich ideologisch nicht passen? Die Trump-Regierung fordert genau das von der NASA. Die Folgen wären weitreichender als gedacht.
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