Weather Satellite Program Gets Drastic Overhaul

摘要

The Obama Administration, as part of its Fiscal 2011 budget submission to Congress, has proposed ending the tri-agency National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System program, or NPOESS, that aimed to build a next generation US civil-military weather-monitoring satellite.rnUnder the changes, the Department of Defense's activities (led by the Air Force) would be split from those of the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA.