Gotta say as a non-seppo firing up a browser session to look at their website and being greeted with “the government is shut down” is super bizarre. The last time a budget bill failed to pass here was fifty fuckin years ago and the yanks used it to coup Gough Whitlam because he did a socialised health care.
There’s some overlap, but in general you need NASA to move the satellites from earth to orbit, maintain them and collect and process the data they send. (The raw data from satellites are things like ‘reflectance at x wavelength’ which can’t be used directly. You need to do complicated black magic to convert that into say temperature or crop cover.)
I thought that stuff was NOAA?
Gotta say as a non-seppo firing up a browser session to look at their website and being greeted with “the government is shut down” is super bizarre. The last time a budget bill failed to pass here was fifty fuckin years ago and the yanks used it to coup Gough Whitlam because he did a socialised health care.
There’s some overlap, but in general you need NASA to move the satellites from earth to orbit, maintain them and collect and process the data they send. (The raw data from satellites are things like ‘reflectance at x wavelength’ which can’t be used directly. You need to do complicated black magic to convert that into say temperature or crop cover.)
Ah, of course NOAA isn’t launching a lot of rockets! Cheers.