The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...

No later than July 31, the Department of Defense will discontinue sharing some satellite data used in hurricane forecasting, ...

The Department of Defense announced that it will end the sharing of some satellite data that helps in hurricane forecast. Here's why ...

The decision to end the service was ultimately made by the US Department of Defense (DoD) and affects data collected by the ...

The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

Wind shear (red - strong shear; green - low shear). Shear is typically strong to start the hurricane season: ...

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

As peak hurricane season nears, the Pentagon is, not so quietly, preparing to pull the plug on a crucial stream of satellite data used by the country’s top weather forecasters, and no one seems to ...

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National ...