The Trump Administration’s Illegal Plan to Defund Carbon Tracking Satellites

Image: Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory, OCO-2. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Article by Graham Templeton. ExtremeTech – August 7, 2025.

We’ve previously reported on the Trump administration’s proposed new budget and the harsh cuts it delivers to NASA for the coming year. Personnel are leaving in droves, and morale is reportedly low as plans must be consistently scaled back or cancelled altogether. But that budget hasn’t been approved yet. In July, lawmakers sent a letter to the newly appointed acting NASA administrator, Sean Duffy, telling him not to implement cuts from the budget until it has passed. […]

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