Every day these people find a new way for me to hate them with a fucking burning passion.
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch
Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz
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Asafum@feddit.nl 3 months ago
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Elon is probably mad it launched on an Ariane 5 and it went so perfectly, we’ll get an extra decade out of science out of it.
The Ariane 5 really was a reliable rocket. It had some failures early on, like basically all rockets, but then it had 82 successful launches in a row and then one partial failure before having another long perfect streak.
Obviously, more expensive than modern reusable rockets but JWST was important enough of a payload, that I’m glad NASA/ESA chose Ariane. (Plus, given JWST’s delays, I imagine when that decision was made, SpaceX was still iterating and having occasional explosions.)
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
~~Fermi-~~MAGA-Paradox
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Space X is going to steal the 20% (probably more).
Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 months ago
Because efficiency is leaving a $10b telescope floating in space like a piece of junk.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Efficiency is when the government abandons all its investments, lets everything fall apart, and drives all scientists to take jobs abroad before the next uncontrolled pandemic paralyzes the country.
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s going to be measles or some other preventable disease