Uncertainty Returns to the Forecast

摘要

For the better part of this year, things were looking up for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), the series of weather and climate monitoring satellites NASA is procuring on behalf of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Unfortunately, the indications of progress threaten to be short lived, thanks again to the chronic inability of a deeply divided U.S. Congress to pass annual appropriations on time.