Hurricane forecasters scrambling after sudden shutdown of key satellites
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The last DMSP launch was in 2024, but that one failed already. The previous launch was in 2009, and that one is still working.
Does anyone know what the DMSP satellites provided for hurricane forecasting that the 4th gen GOES satellites and the JPSS satellites can't do?
Note: I do think that shutting the program down suddenly when there are still some functioning satellites is a bad idea. But this program was very near it's end of life already.
In the eerie silence, a small bespeckled man approaches you, smiles and hands you a trophy.
You look upon the plaque. It reads "You Bastard"
Prepared how exactly? Developed a whole new branch of science that doesn’t currently exist? Raised a billion dollars to launch some satellites everyone expected a functioning government to take care of?
You might as well be telling the guy that just got shot he should try being more bulletproof.
Get off the legacy platform and onto the new platform like they were given a decade of warning to do. The JPSS satellites are supposed to be providing the info used to do this job.