Severe storms over the past year have helped focus attention on the precarious state and future of U.S. weather satellite coverage. On the civilian side, funding instability - partly due to sequestration - and delays have raised the specter of coverage gaps, both in geostationary- and polar-orbiting satellites. The U.S. military, meanwhile, has yet to settle on an approach to replacing its outdated Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), whose last two satellites are expected to launch in the coming years.
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