"NASA Reportedly Ordered To Destroy Important [Orbiting Carbon Observatory] Satellite"

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"This Is Illegal": NASA Reportedly Ordered To Destroy Important OCO Satellite

The satellite is fully functional, providing valuable data, and may soon be burned up in our atmosphere out out of choice.

JAMES FELTON
Senior Staff Writer

Edited by Holly Large […]

"What I have heard is direct communications from people who were making those plans, who weren't allowed to tell me that that's what they were told to do. But they were allowed to ask me questions," David Crisp, a retired NASA employee who helped design the instruments, told NPR. "They were asking me very sharp questions. The only thing that would have motivated those questions was [that] somebody told them to come up with a termination plan." […]

As well as being detrimental to climate science, terminating the project would be a fairly spectacular waste of money already spent on it. The vast majority of the budget – around $750 million – went into design, manufacture, and launch, while maintenance only costs around $15 million a year, a small price for such valuable data. […]

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