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NOAA's GOES-R Satellite Captures Sun Blasts Powerful X2 Flare
Sunspot 3912 erupted with an X2-class solar flare.NOAA's GOES-R satellite captures footage of the blast in multiple ...
Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts
Trump’s pick to lead the NOAA, Neil Jacobs, was chief atmospheric scientist for Panasonic Weather Solutions and is a ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)3d
Why forecasters are concerned about losing 3 key satellites ahead of peak hurricane season
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...
Dangerous weather predictions will get tougher after these Trump administration actions
The decision by the Department of Defense to stop providing data to NOAA is just the latest challenge for the agency this ...
Opinion
Disaster Looms As President Trump Plans To Defund Satellite Crash Avoidance Service
The U.S. Space Force and the entire private space industry are telling Congress this is a recipe for disaster.
Trump-Linked weather privatization plan raises ethics concerns as commerce chief Lutnick faces scrutiny
Commerce Secretary, faces scrutiny over potential conflicts of interest. Trump's team aims to privatize weather forecasting.
NOAA still confident in weather forecasting after Pentagon program ends
The Department of Defense's announcement that it would end a weather-data sharing program surprised some climate watchdogs ...
Hurricane forecasters are losing 3 key satellites ahead of peak storm season—meteorologist explains why it matters
About 600 miles off the west coast of Africa, large clusters of thunderstorms begin organizing into tropical storms every ...
Hurricane forecasters are losing 3 key satellites ahead of peak storm season − a meteorologist explains why it matters
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...
The Baltimore Sun15d
Hurrican forecasters to have access to critical satellite data until ...
Earlier this month, NOAA said it would discontinue the “ingest, processing and distribution” of data collected by three weather satellites that the agency jointly runs with the Defense Department.