Comments on: Fighting for TRMM http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/24/fighting-for-trmm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fighting-for-trmm Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Harold LaValley http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/24/fighting-for-trmm/#comment-994 Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:59:09 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=260#comment-994 What is worse throwing away a working satelite or one that will go bad in just a few years (Hubble).
I think it has a large amount of fuel left. I wonder if it could be directed to the moon to use the on board camers’s for the mapping operations that the LRO is to due in a few years.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/24/fighting-for-trmm/#comment-993 Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:22:03 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=260#comment-993 The Japanese have already declined to spend any money on this. One would think that if TRMM is so important for hurricane forecasting and science, NOAA would find some money to keep it going.

It seems that NASA is getting all the blame, but in many ways this is a classic game of budgetary politics. Nobody wants to be the first to offer to pay for something that everybody wants.

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