NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost

Associated Press ^ | November 29, 2022 | Seth Borenstein

[Olog-hai]

NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated.

But the space agency said it will still be watching human-caused carbon pollution but in different ways.

NASA on Tuesday announced that its GeoCarb mission, which was supposed to be a low-cost satellite to monitor carbon dioxide, methane and how plant life changes over North and South America, was being killed because of cost overruns.

When it was announced six years ago, it was supposed to cost $166 million, but the latest NASA figures show costs would balloon to more than $600 million and it was years late, according to NASA Earth Sciences Director Karen St. Germain.

Unlike other satellites that monitor greenhouse gases from low Earth orbit and get different parts of the globe in a big picture, GeoCarb was supposed to be at a much higher altitude of 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) from one fixed place in orbit and focus intently on North and South America. That different and further perspective proved too difficult and costly to get done on budget and on time, St. Germain said. …

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Let me get this straight. A country that is going to spend billions on “climate reparations” doesn’t want to spend money to gather actual data?

Why don’t they want the facts? This is a complete cover-up.

[NorthMountain]

Many in NASA would have liked to cancel the rocket

SLS is a kludge based on ancient technology. Many in NASA and its contractors would have liked to start over and do it right. For example, back in the early 2000s they looked at the specs and design for the Saturn V "F-1" engine ... then started over and designed an engine to EXCEED those specs using modern materials and fabrication techniques. Congress would not allow it.

[cpdiii]

Past satellite data has showed no global warming. Odd that they canceled the CO2 monitoring satellite? Perhaps NASA really knows it is not about CO2?

It is really about the earths orbital mechanics and that fusion furnace in the sky named the sun. NASA knows this but NASA is politicized.

[Vaduz]

NASA satellite spotted a huge clouded area in infrared in Mi Ind Ill and Ohio area and sent someone to investigate it and it turned out to be very high concentrations of oxygen.

Same in most corn belt areas

Noted on What on Earth program

[Olog-hai]

The scale of the sun (you can fit 1.3 million earths into its volume; such a celestial body would be the primary driver for whatever is happening on the planet) ought to show their folly instantly.

[Olog-hai]

I thought it was ironic that the chief scientist’s name was Karen St. Germain, too . . .

[Olog-hai]

BTW, this is an illustration of how many earths can fit in the sun. The transparent ball is the sun, and the tiny blue balls are the many earths . . .

[SuperLuminal]

Simple math...

The most efficient and low-cost method to “monitor” the CO2 is to have the government experts simply state what they “think” it is...

That is, and always has been, the controlling scientific method for the communist-controlled environmentalist attack on capitalism and individual freedoms...

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Good one! I missed that.