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Europe Moves Ahead With Weather Satellite Blacklist
Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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European government officials may resent the fact that the U.S. government is forcing them to create a blacklist of organizations that will not be granted access to weather-satellite data from Europe's future polar-orbiting satellites, which will include U.S. government-supplied instruments. But they have nonetheless agreed to create such a list this year.

 

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bill (73) Senior board member | 2007-10-17 21:39:40
so who are these "blacklisted" organisations ? - I'm guessing that the US sees a lot of militry advantage in this data ??? I must be missing the point somewhere along the line as I don't see it as such a big deal
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