Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” said David Crisp, the atmospheric physicist who led the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) missions up through his retirement in 2022.

NASA has begun planning to end the mission of several important satellites at the request of the Trump administration, according to a report by NPR. In 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO),

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.