"Suspension of All Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (#DMSP) #Data by June 30, 2025."
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2025/06/MSG_20250625_1735.html

"Due to recent service changes, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) will discontinue ingest, processing and distribution of all DMSP data no later than June 30, 2025. ESPC interfaces will not receive DMSP data and all data products will be suspended. Users should expect…data from Operational Linescan System (OLS), Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS), and all Near-Earth Space Weather instruments to be terminated. This service change and termination will be permanent."

Urgent notice to all SSMIS product users

We've just been informed that #SSMIS from the US #DMSP satellite will stop to be distributed on Monday 30th June 2025.

Consequently, we advise SSMIS only-based #SeaIce products users to urgently change.

Find more information and guidance on our website :

https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/stories/implications-end-ssmis-data-osi-saf-products

Access to SSMIS data from the US #DMSP satellites is becoming less reliable as this satellite program is reaching its end. Data will become scarser with the time until a full stop in 09/2026. Several OSI SAF #SeaIce products are affected.

More information: https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/stories/implications-end-ssmis-data-osi-saf-products
this story will be maintained up to date regularly

".. U.S. Space Force reported Dec. 19 .. identified a “low-velocity fragmentation event” involving the DMSP-5D2 F14 spacecraft. .. event took place at 9:10 p.m. Eastern Dec. 18 at an altitude of 840 kilometers, .."
".. part of a family of spacecraft that have suffered breakups in orbit .."

https://starfightersspace.com/spacenews-retired-military-weather-satellite-breaks-up/

20.12.2024

#NASA:
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Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low; Antarctic Ice Continues Decline
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https://www.nasa.gov/earth/arctic-sea-ice-near-historic-low-antarctic-ice-continues-decline/

24.9.2024

New discovery reveals that ocean #algae unexpectedly help cool the Earth https://phys.org/news/2024-06-discovery-reveals-ocean-algae-unexpectedly.html #protists #microbes

Alternative #dimethylsulfoniopropionate #biosynthesis enzymes in diverse and abundant microorganisms https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01715-9

"They identified the bloom-forming #Pelagophyceae algae as potentially abundant, important producers of a compound called #DMSP... this is the main source of a #climate active gas called #dimethylsulfide (#DMS), which is known as the smell of the seaside."