White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
futurism.com
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/45614563

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5763205

One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they’d been providing had been “of exceptionally high quality.”

The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.

(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it “makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency’s $25.4 billion budget.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    12·
    3 days ago

    Trump is pressuring other countries to follow suit with his stupid bullshit, he would have a fit if somebody took it over

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      12·
      3 days ago

      He’s already had a fit with Canada. If his response continues to be to raise tariffs until all the affected sectors of the US economy just move to Canada to avoid them….

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
        2·
        3 days ago

        With any luck some of their military production facilities will move here to avoid the tariffs, and then when things kick off we can nationalize the bastards