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The Earth Observer: Sep - Oct, 1992
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Editor's Corner
Michael King, EOS Senior Project Scientist
On September 15, 1992, I replaced Jeff Dozier as EOS Senior Project Scientist. We wish Jeff well as he returns to his teaching and research career at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Jeff performed an enormously valuable service to the entire Earth Science community during a period of profound change and restructuring of the EOS Program. During the past year, the EOS-A and EOS-B platforms were recast into six smaller platforms having more focused objectives. Is EOS now a more stable program, simply ready for instrument and software development with no more surprises? I think it would be unrealistic and unwise for any of us to think so.
In spite of the well-articulated and focused program, developed in close consultation with the Payload Advisory Panel and the IWG, the budget realities in the Congress have again dictated that the EOS Program narrow its focus and reduce its budget. The recently passed Appropriations Bill in the U.S. Congress further reduced the decadal funding for EOS from $11 billion to $8 billion, all to be absorbed between fiscal years 1994 and 2000. In anticipation of this decision, and following on the heels of the Red and Blue Team recommendations to the NASA Administrator, the Payload Advisory Panel was once again convened (see Payload Panel Report elsewhere in this issue).
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