Titlebook: NASA and the Politics of Climate Research; Satellites and Risin W. Henry Lambright Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s

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Adopting TOPEX/Poseidon,lites with research as a purpose. W. Stanley Wilson, an oceanographer and bureaucratic entrepreneur, joined NASA to create such a program (Seasat was seen as a technology demonstration only). This chapter details what and how Wilson built an ocean program. At NASA Administrator James Beggs’ insisten

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Breakthrough for Sea-Level Rise,and how they might impact climate. But the satellite resolution was so precise, many scientists realized that they could detect with clarity climate change’s impact on the oceans. In 1994, a NASA-based scientist found a way to translate complex data into sea-level measurements. Doing so was a breakt

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Remaking a Mission,he Earth Sciences mission (then called Mission to Planet Earth). Kennel served from 1994 to 1996. His deputy, Bill Townsend, had been Wilson’s deputy and was an advocate for a follow-on to TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason. As Jason, known as Jason-1, was carved from a deconstructed EOS so also was another sate

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High Hopes,rth” to “Earth Science.” He wished to emphasize the science and fly under the intensifying political radar of climate change. He built on TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 success by getting a decision for a Jason-2 follow-on. This would feature a new technology called wide-swath altimetry. Goldin was adam

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,“At Risk of Collapse”,emerged from the EOS downsizing, he had serious funding problems assuring future missions. Also, Goldin sought to shift EOS climate follow-ons to NOAA and its huge weather satellite system, NPOESS (National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System). The Jason-2 wide-swath technology

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Rebuilding Begins,dal Survey (2007–2017) as a guide to planning and strategy for insulating his program from disruptive climate politics. He began incrementally to rebuild the Earth Science division, pointing to the sea-level program as a priority. Promoting new satellites, he made sure there was continuity in polar

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,Taking “The Lead”,te system, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). In the wake of Hurricane Sandy (2012), Congress and the White House told NOAA to stick with weather and NASA to take charge of both R&D and operational climate satellites. NOAA and NASA resisted as Freilich feared losing research—NASA’s priority—to ope