House Hearing on Dysfunction in Management of Weather and Climate Satellites, September 2013

Two subcommittees of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a joint hearing on September 19, 2013 entitled “Dysfunction in Management of Weather and Climate Satellites.”  Witnesses from NOAA and NASA disagreed with a witness from the Government Accountabiity Office (GAO) and committee members over whether there is likely to be a gap in data from NOAA’s polar orbiting and geostationary weather satellites in the coming years.   SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the hearing on September 21, 2013.