The forecasters maybe should have prepared for this, considering Congress voted to terminate the DMSP program in 2015.
The last DMSP launch was in 2024, but that one failed already. The previous launch was in 2009, and that one is still working.
Does anyone know what the DMSP satellites provided for hurricane forecasting that the 4th gen GOES satellites and the JPSS satellites can't do?
Note: I do think that shutting the program down suddenly when there are still some functioning satellites is a bad idea. But this program was very near it's end of life already.
BenjiWiebe•7mo ago
Actually even the picture used in the article is from a GOES satellite.
A quietness descends upon the forest. Crickets cease. Birds stop their song. Even the very leaves stop rustling in the wind.
In the eerie silence, a small bespeckled man approaches you, smiles and hands you a trophy.
You look upon the plaque. It reads "You Bastard"
Neywiny•7mo ago
Just an easy joke, bud
b112•7mo ago
No worries, the "You bastard" was affectionately given, with mirth.
tw04•7mo ago
> The forecasters maybe should have prepared for this
Prepared how exactly? Developed a whole new branch of science that doesn’t currently exist? Raised a billion dollars to launch some satellites everyone expected a functioning government to take care of?
You might as well be telling the guy that just got shot he should try being more bulletproof.
potato3732842•7mo ago
>Prepared how exactly? Developed a whole new branch of science that doesn’t currently exist? Raised a billion dollars to launch some satellites everyone expected a functioning government to take care of?
Get off the legacy platform and onto the new platform like they were given a decade of warning to do. The JPSS satellites are supposed to be providing the info used to do this job.
BenjiWiebe•7mo ago
The last DMSP launch was in 2024, but that one failed already. The previous launch was in 2009, and that one is still working.
Does anyone know what the DMSP satellites provided for hurricane forecasting that the 4th gen GOES satellites and the JPSS satellites can't do?
Note: I do think that shutting the program down suddenly when there are still some functioning satellites is a bad idea. But this program was very near it's end of life already.
BenjiWiebe•7mo ago
ahns•7mo ago
Neywiny•7mo ago
b112•7mo ago
In the eerie silence, a small bespeckled man approaches you, smiles and hands you a trophy.
You look upon the plaque. It reads "You Bastard"
Neywiny•7mo ago
b112•7mo ago
tw04•7mo ago
Prepared how exactly? Developed a whole new branch of science that doesn’t currently exist? Raised a billion dollars to launch some satellites everyone expected a functioning government to take care of?
You might as well be telling the guy that just got shot he should try being more bulletproof.
potato3732842•7mo ago
Get off the legacy platform and onto the new platform like they were given a decade of warning to do. The JPSS satellites are supposed to be providing the info used to do this job.