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Tuesday, October 21. 2008

Federal Satellite Buy Plan, BASIC, Scrapped

Remote Sensing

Cost was the main reason according to an AP story which explains that House and Senate intelligence appropriations committees cut all the funding for 2009 along with what was left for 2008. The National Reconnaissance Office, NRO, planned to acquire two birds, like those of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye for launch around 2012. BASIC, the Broad Area Space-Based Imagery Collection satellite system including funding for those and monies to acquire additional commercial imagery.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 09:20 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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This is a great disappointment. There's a government market for many satellites that would provide multi-pass coverage every day...and these would have met the need.

Relying on commercial companies that totter along on shaky finances is no way to manage the government's business. I suspect the misguided staffer who recommended this decision was woefully misinformed...or lobbied by the commercial folks.

Shame on the Approps office.
#1 August West on 2008-10-21 16:19 (Reply)

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