Budget 2011 Opens Gap In U.S. Weather Data

摘要

Arriving 6 months into this fiscal year, the 2011 federal budget signed into law last week will create a key satellite data gap in 2017, say federal weather forecasters. The delay in passing a budget has held back construction of a weather satellite, the Joint Polar Satellite System-1. It was planned for launch in early 2016 to cover for a satellite that will have reached the end of its 5-year life by then, but it probably won't launch until 2018.