Nasa to Launch Satellite to Collect Weather Data

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LOS ANGELES - After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.

The $1.5 billion NASA mission comes in a year of weather extremes from the Midwest tornado outbreak to the Southwest wildfires to hurricane-caused flooding in New England.

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Nasa to Launch Satellite to Collect Weather Data

"We've already had 10 separate weather events, each inflicting at least $1 billion in damages," said Loui...

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