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Cash-Starved NASA to Nix 1 Space Telescope

posted by martyb on Sunday May 25 2014, @12:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-word-yet-on-NSA-funding-cuts dept.

AnonTechie writes:

It seems that Cash-Starved NASA May Have to Nix 1 Space Telescope to Save Others:

Based on the findings of an independent review panel (pdf), NASA has taken stock of its fleet of orbiting astrophysics telescopes and decided which to save and which to shutter (pdf). Among the winners were the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Kepler planet-hunting telescope, which will begin a modified mission designed to compensate for the recent failure of two of its four stabilizing reaction wheels. The infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, however, may be deactivated due to lack of funding. And a bid to convert data collected by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) into a format usable for astrophysics was also deemed too expensive. (The NEOWISE mission hunts for near-Earth asteroids that might pose a collision risk to our planet and is funded through NASA's Planetary Science Division.)

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 25 2014, @01:03AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday May 25 2014, @01:03AM (#47225) Journal

    An excellent plan! ..until that nasty evil NEO meteorite hits your head. Well head on? or just perhaps your command center or power plant.

    Now let's finance some war instead .. ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 25 2014, @12:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 25 2014, @12:28PM (#47298)

    I'm sure the NSA would be more than willing to buy it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 25 2014, @01:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 25 2014, @01:56PM (#47305)

      Jesus Christ, go back to Slashdot. You people get very tiresome.