The DMSP was created in the 1960s to provide global weather and space information to the Defense Department, which has long ...

As a result, there will be no interruption to DMSP data delivery and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

After announcing it would lose access to key weather satellite data, NOAA will retain access, the agency said in a statement.

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

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to ...

The Butterfly Effect is the chaos-theory idea that the flapping of an insect’s tiny wings can influence massive weather events far removed from it in distance and time.

Satellite data that are useful for weather forecasting—and particularly crucial to monitoring hurricanes—will not be cut off by the Department of Defense at the end of the month as originally planned.

Louisiana meteorologists and weather experts criticized the decision to cut the satellites and joined others across the ...

After an initial plan to cut the data off in late June, the Pentagon extended that timeline to July 31 as forecasters raised concern that any loss of data could increase the risks rapidly intensifying ...

Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will maintain long-term access to key Defense Department satellite data used for hurricane forecasting and more, the agency said in a statement ...