Sometimes something that starts out looking like a good idea turns out to be a very bad idea. That certainly seems to be the case with the current U.S. plan to put a land imaging sensor on the first of a new generation of polar-orbiting weather satellites, instead of building another dedicated Landsat spacecraft.
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