There are three kinds of satellites that do this sort of earth observation right now. I'd look up the acronyms but frankly it's been weeks since the news dropped and I don't care to educate anyone anymore, you can google it if you want. There's one kind they've been launching every now and then since the 00s and there's only a couple of it's type up there due to short-ish life (like a decade and a half) last few being problematic resulting in a very low (like count on one hand) number of its type in service of which most are at or beyond end of life. Those are being defunded. The programs that maintain the other two types will remain.

It's like the air force saying they're killing the F15C but keeping the F15D and F15E only with space and different acronyms.

Really speaks volumes about the community that news that's basically the space equivalent of the army or navy retiring a class of craft in favor of others that do that jobs is being portrayed like it's the end of the world. If the EOLing were an actual degradation in the organization's capability it would not have gone out of the mainstream so fast.