U.S. Earth-Observing Satellites in Jeopardy, AAAS Board Cautions

As U.S. policy-makers prepared for hearings on space-science and climate-change research, AAAS is warning that budget cuts are threatening U.S. satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane warning, studies of global climate change and more.

Cutbacks and reallocations within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are "already causing harm" to Earth-observing satellites, and "will become rapidly worse unless the Congress and the Administration take prompt action to reverse the recent trends," the AAAS Board cautioned in a statement approved 28 April 2007.

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