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NASA Defends Plan To End Role In DSCOVR Satellite

NASA Defends Plan To End Role In DSCOVR Satellite
Robert Lightfoot, NASA's acting administrator (Photo by NASA)

Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot last week defended his agency’s proposal to end its participation in the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), saying that 20 other spacecraft on orbit provide the same or better information.“We’d rather put our research and analysis efforts around those spacecraft instead of DSCOVR,” Lightfoot testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee June 29.A partnership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA and the Air Force, DSCOVR was launched in February 2015…

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