> There's no reason to expensively launch your own forecasting system when you can instead just wait for someone else to do it and then use their insurance rates to do your own forecasting.
Indeed but who's going to do that? The US government will, more likely than not, have lost the ability entirely, and Europe... good luck waiting on us.
> Which is why the government running satellites it would need to run anyway is much more efficient
Indeed. But there is no opportunity for continuous recurring grift revenue in that, and that is all that drives the current administration.
