NOAA’s FY2018 Budget Request for Satellites

NOAA’s FY2018 Budget Request for Satellites is a free SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet that tracked the FY2018 budget request as it worked its way through Congress.  The Trump Administration requested $1.579.5 billion for NOAA’s satellite programs, a reduction of $399.3 million from FY2017.  In the 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Congress appropriated $1,857.2 million, $277.7 million more than requested, primarily for NOAA’s next two polar orbiting weather spacecraft.  This is the FINAL VERSION of this fact sheet and is dated March 23, 2018.