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Bush Budget Proposes $74 Million In Fiscal 2009 To Replace NPOESS Sensors Deleted In Cost Woes

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Monday, February 4th, 2008

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Bush Also Proposes $103 Million In Fiscal 2009, Total $910 Million In Fiscal 2009-13, For Space Climate Research On Seven Future Satellites Now In Planning, Development Mikulski Provides Fiscal 2008 Funds For Ice Sheet Studies From Satellite Observations President Bush will add $74 million to his budget plan for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, to help replace sensors that were removed in 2006 from the planned National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), according to the White House…

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