2d ago

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

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/45614563

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5763205
One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.
A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."
The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.
(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it "makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data," pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency's $25.4 billion budget.

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

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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

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Trumps on the list. Anything he does and says is just a distraction from not releasing the list.
MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT
- MAGA is actually MANGA.
Donny 2 Dolls is an enemy to humanity, and to children in particular.
Release ALL the unredacted Epstein Files!!!!
So not burning our tax money this time, exploding it. Thats Progress.
Its all about appreciating the slightly less awful outcome.
(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it “makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,”
Yes, but it makes perfect sabotage sense from a saboteur's perspective.
- It makes no economic sense if you value science and the contribution it makes to our economy, our society, our future.
  But science has no political loyalty
- Democracies, that haven’t fallen, across the world will still collect this data, or build up to the point of being able to. Which means, the US plans to suppress those countries’ news and data too. Or, in other words, lock down the internet for their population like China does.
  
  But that data will be foreign, rigged, unfair and fake.
Dear No Kings crowd, please march on Washington.
Tax payer here. Let's not
Just give them a dummy button and play the clip of the death star blowing up or something. They aren't going to check to make sure it happened. Keep it sending the data just turn off the server side recording it then turn it back on when they inevitably forget about it in a couple weeks.
- This is 100% the answer. They will forget they ever wanted to do this because they will be managing another crisis of their own making in a week or two.
- It makes me sad how confident I am that this would work.
I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world could unite and just remove USA from the map. Humanity might survive if it'd happen, but in the end, we all know we're going to burn together.
- I live in the USA. I hate the current administration. I don’t want to be removed from the map.
- just remove USA from the map
  The real “Gulf of America”, just north of the Gulf of Mexico
- Humanity might survive if it’d happen
  You think the current president's contingency plan isn't to just nuke everywhere and everything?
  
  Hence 'might'
  
  but hey, global warming would cease to be a concern.
NASA's budget. Is set. By CONGRESS.
- And executed by the executive branch, with a gun. The scrotus safety switch is fully in the off position.
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/43514203?scrollToComments=true
Don't do it; not like they can destroy it without you!
- I wouldn't be so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to nuke it and EMPs the entire world, then with some Olympic level mental gymnastics, blames the Dems for his stupidity
  
  Look what they made me do
- I mean, even though the ‘baddies’ are in power… refusing a directive/order like that would still be considered ‘treason’.
  
  Giving that order should be treason.
  
  No it's not. It's maybe grounds for firing, but not doing what your boss says is not treason.
  
  So it's treason then
  
  Sure seems like they aren't prosecuting people for reason anymore.
😢
Is this enough evidence to say that MAGA is running purely on accelerationism at this point?
They’ll be cutting off funding for the program as well. So why not… move it to Canada or Germany?
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Fake it.
- Cause the sattelite to deorbit onto the whitehouse?
  
  Brilliant!
Somewhat related, would be nice if they'd order Juno to be rerouted to check out interstellar comet 3I-Atlas, has to be done before the end of the month. Juno is slated to be deorbited into Jupiter in September so has no actual science left to do but probably enough fuel remaining for the rendesvous.
- It's a fantastic idea, really clever. But I'm afraid it's too late, it doesn't have the necessary Delta-V. We could have tried it if we had planned the mission a month ago, but at this point we just can't get there in time (We didn't know its trajectory a month ago, so it's a moot point). What it comes down to is this, to make a flyby it would need about 2.5k Delta V, Juno has about half that.
  Also, we're not confident Juno's engines will light. We've previously refrained from using them for some planned manners because we recorded abnormalities the last time they were fired. There's a decent chance engines would explode if used again.
  If we want to be able to take advantage of this kind of situation in the future, we'll need at least one of two things... More probes, just sitting around with more fuel to spare, or better detection abilities so we can find these objects with more time to get to them. I'm betting on the later approach.
- What kind of trajectory is that assuming? The closest approach of 3l-Atlas to Jupiter is in March and will be 54 million km away. Is this end of the month timing to get it off of Jupiter's orbit and closer to 3l-Atlas's orbit? How will it achieve the 61km/sec intercept speed of the comet?
  
  This would be a flyby, rather than orbiting, as that would take a lot more propellant. I'd assume they might use gravitational assist from Jupiter, but a more or less direct shot might be planned, not sure. 3I Atlas would be closest to Jupiter in early September, yes, coincidentally the same time Juno was expected to be deorbited. As far as achieving the velocity needed, there are some calculations yet to be done but apparently there could be enough propellant onboard to do it.
  I heard about the intercept idea through The Angry Astronaut's youtube but there was a Congresswoman and some professors pushing it too.
  (Angry Astronaut's recent video about an intercept mission) https://youtu.be/B6O7nuJcmpY
Just don't.
Oh no!

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