The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned lawmakers April 13 that the budget compromise they were poised to pass would delay launch of the first satellite in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) from 2014 to 2016, making it all but certain the United States will experience at least an 18-month gap in the collection of certain weather and storm-tracking data.
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