DSCOVR

AP Science writer Seth Borenstein recently asked NASA why they were letting a $200 million climate satellite sit in a box when it could be recording invaluable data on the earth's climate. The answer NASA gave is very suspicious given the insider information recently revealed.

Somewhere in Maryland is a metal box containing a fully completed climate spacecraft that could save the world.
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) cost over $100 million and was designed to measure the energy budget of our warming planet. Yet the spacecraft has remained in its box for the last five years and it looks like it is not going anywhere anytime soon.

NASA quietly canceled the project altogether in January 2006 citing “competing priorities”.