The book mentions legislative efforts by Senators Barbara Mikulski and Bill Nelson to try to get the satellite launched.
NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, a satellite originally intended to provide a near-continuous view of the entire Earth, was initially named Triana, after Rodrigo de Triana.
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