An article in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on 5/27/09 stated that Harris Corp. could earn as much as $ 736 million under a National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contract to build data processing systems for advanced weather satellites. The Lockheed Martin-built satellites, scheduled to launch beginning in 2015, will use advanced sensor technology to provide meteorologists with up to 20 times more weather data."NOAA's satellites are a crucial tool for weather forecasters and scientists, saving lives and property and helping us understand our changing climate," said Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. "This award will ensure NOAA remains on the cutting edge in satellite technology."
More weather satellite launchings will create additional ozone depletion as well as more space junk orbiting our planet. Edward O'Lenic, Chief, Operations Branch NOAA-NWS-Climate Prediction Center recently stated "Meteorolsists can predict the weather accurately for 1-2 days, any predictions after that would be inaccurate." With all the thousands of weather satellites currently orbiting the earth, meteorologists can not predict the weather any better today than they could 40 years ago, before all the weather satellite launchings. Why waste an additional $736 million?
The reason why is for companies like Harris Corp. and Lockheed Martin to make more money, back to the word, GREED!
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