Tuesday, August 05, 2025

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health. 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.

Comments

Getting rid of any manner of scientific means to measure industrial pollution.

So that even when you're coughing in a smoggy haze, they can claim the air quality is green and you'll be just fine.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-05 11:43 AM

Donald Trump is a destructive man; an aggressive vandal.

It's all part of the mental illness he has. An illness that remains untreated, is getting worse, but is coddled by MAGA.

Not letting him off the hook in terms of character failings. That he's crazy merely increase what a work class bastard he is.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-05 11:50 AM

Pres Trump seems to enjoy, even revel in, shooting the messenger when he dislikes the message.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-05 12:14 PM

Weather? We'll tell you what the weather is, you fools.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-05 03:12 PM

FTA: "A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."

Those American taxpayer-funded satellites cost millions of dollars and we'll never get them back. America's Godzilla is destroying the US.

Earlier this year AIPAC Democrats stymied an impeachment bill against Trumpf because he attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. When will the Democratic Party rid itself of AIPAC so any and all impeachment bills against this madman occupying the White House go through?

Link:

abcnews.go.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-05 03:21 PM

#4: "Weather satellites? We don't need no stinkin' weather satellites!" ih1.redbubble.net

BTW: How'd you make out at Morongo? Make any dinero?

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-05 04:14 PM

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