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Weather System Follow-on – Microwave

Space Force Accepts New Weather Satellite, Eyes Commercial Options

April 25, 2025 | By Greg Hadley
The Space Force is ready to start using its newest weather satellite after finishing testing and achieving initial operational capability, the service announced April 24. 
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The Space Based Environmental Monitoring Modernization Imperative: Weather Counts

Dec. 18, 2023 | By Douglas A. Birkey and Charles Galbreath
Military missions in the air, on land, and at sea demand robust, timely weather information. On-orbit space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) systems are a critical source of this data, but years of underfunding, delayed, curtailed, and canceled modernization programs have left the SBEM enterprise in a ...

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