The SSMIS instruments are part of three weather satellites that are in low-Earth orbit and are maintained by NOAA in ...

The U.S. Defense Department has decided not to end the dispersal of key satellite weather data on Friday as planned. The ...

With the peak hurricane season looming, forecasters will be without key information starting Monday because the Defense ...

About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy ...

The Defense Department will no longer end the sharing of critical satellite weather information after the plan was met with ...

Weather satellites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense will stop delivering data to NOAA on July 31. Here’s why and ...

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to rapidly intensify, a dangerous situation for coastal communities.

Lawmakers have asked for more information about the Pentagon’s decision to stop publicly sharing data from its Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.

The satellite program has historically been a key source of weather forecasting data for NOAA.

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive barometer of climate change — as the U.S. Department of Defense ...

The department announced the termination of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program late last month, citing cybersecurity concerns. The program is slated to end on July 31.

Tech Space, satellite, defense companies urge lawmakers to fund NOAA space commerce office Letters to House and Senate appropriators follow the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the office and ...