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Defense Department will continue providing critical weather satellite data to NOAA
The SSMIS instruments are part of three weather satellites that are in low-Earth orbit and are maintained by NOAA in ...
Defense Department opts to not end satellite data for storm forecasts
The U.S. Defense Department has decided not to end the dispersal of key satellite weather data on Friday as planned. The ...
Defense Department to end satellite data programs used for storm forecasts
With the peak hurricane season looming, forecasters will be without key information starting Monday because the Defense ...
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In reversal, Defense Department will continue providing crucial satellite weather data
About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy ...
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US military reverses end to satellite weather sharing program
The Defense Department will no longer end the sharing of critical satellite weather information after the plan was met with ...
Pentagon to Keep Sharing Key Satellite Data for Hurricane Forecasting Despite Planned Cutoff
The Department of Defense now says it will continue sharing key data collected by three sophisticated weather satellites that ...
Hurricane Forecasters Keep Access to Threatened Defense Department Satellite Data
Satellite data that are useful for weather forecasting—and particularly crucial to monitoring hurricanes—will not be cut off by the Department of Defense at the end of the month as originally planned.
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Key data used in hurricane forecasting in jeopardy, NOAA says
The satellite program has historically been a key source of weather forecasting data for NOAA.