WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to request smaller than expected budgets for its next-generation geostationary weather satellites from 2011 to 2014, including $118 million less for 2011 than it anticipated requesting at this time last year, NOAA draft budget documents for 2011 show.

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