The U.S. government has informed its European partners it will be unable to furnish three observing instruments it had planned to provide for Europe's next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system, likely forcing European authorities to de-scope the project as they scramble to finance at least part of what the United States was supposed to provide. This was not the only piece of bad news that the U.S. agency responsible for civilian weather-satellite operations, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), delivered to Europe's Eumetsat meteorological satellite organization and European national authorities.
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