Mar 21, 2024 02:44 PM
(This post was last modified: Mar 21, 2024 07:26 PM by C C.)
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/...ope-death/
KEY POINTS: Back during the 1980s through the early 2000s, NASA planned and launched its original fleet of great observatories: Hubble, Compton, Chandra, and Spitzer. Hubble and Chandra are still operating today, reigning supreme as our flagship optical and X-ray observatories, respectively, and still performing world-class, cutting-edge science. Shockingly and appallingly, the President's suggested FY2025 budget wants to kill Chandra, based on erroneous reasoning and with no successor mission even planned. Here's what must be done...
EXCERPT: In fact, the only reasons that the President gave in the budget report are factually untrue, and now it’s up to Congress to correct the mistake. Unless that occurs, humanity will lose our sharpest, highest-resolution views of the X-ray universe prematurely, when instead we should be investing in keeping what we have today and building a better tomorrow. Here’s the full story... (MORE - details)
KEY POINTS: Back during the 1980s through the early 2000s, NASA planned and launched its original fleet of great observatories: Hubble, Compton, Chandra, and Spitzer. Hubble and Chandra are still operating today, reigning supreme as our flagship optical and X-ray observatories, respectively, and still performing world-class, cutting-edge science. Shockingly and appallingly, the President's suggested FY2025 budget wants to kill Chandra, based on erroneous reasoning and with no successor mission even planned. Here's what must be done...
EXCERPT: In fact, the only reasons that the President gave in the budget report are factually untrue, and now it’s up to Congress to correct the mistake. Unless that occurs, humanity will lose our sharpest, highest-resolution views of the X-ray universe prematurely, when instead we should be investing in keeping what we have today and building a better tomorrow. Here’s the full story... (MORE - details)