NASA cuts two Earth science missions
MAR 08, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025114
Space.com : Despite an increase in NASA’s Earth science budget for 2012, NASA was ordered by the White House to cut two large climate-change missions that were to launch by 2017. Eliminated were the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory, and Deformation, Ecosystem Structure and Dynamics of Ice missions, according to Steve Volz, associate director for flight programs at NASA’s Earth Science Division. The other two top-tier Earth science missionsSoil Moisture Active and Passive and the Ice, Cloud, and Elevation Satellite-2remain budgeted for launch in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
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