Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data

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Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

We spent around $1B to develop and launch OCO 1 (failed launch), 2, and 3 combined. Continued operations of OCO 2 and 3 cost about $15M per year in total. Destroying them would be like destroying a skyscraper that is a few years old and costs $15M in annual maintenance. That would be a very cheap building to maintain I’m guessing.

Once on orbit, satellite are extremely cheap and it is our best interests to keep them alive as long as possible.

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