50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity NASA's Voyager project could be facing a 26 percent budget cut while the plug is pulled on other programs, according to insiders familiar with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The mission currently costs approximately $5 million per year, although an exact figure is difficult to ascertain, not least because the US space …
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Given that you are probably not a member of some 1000-year old aristocratic mega-landed family who though educating the peasants was on the road to the end of the world as we know it, something like DEIA has probably given you the education to know the correct place to put that apostrophe and comma.
> And that's a good thing, right?
If they'd concentrate on their core business then maybe they would have got the Artemis II to the moon by now. Nor having to rely on SpaceX Dragon to collect and deliver crew to the International Space Station.
Core business?
You mean "Devotion of Space Activities to Peaceful Purposes for Benefit of All Humankind" by collaborating with other countries to do research into improvements in aeronautics and space vehicles to the advancement of peaceful uses of space.
And, since 1984, that includes actively helping the development of commercial space flight* like giving SpaceX contracts for ISS runs.
Is in the form of firing people who have worked on it for decades, that would kill it just as effectively as zeroing the budget would. But they probably knew that there would be public backlash against killing it entirely, because the general public is familiar with it in a way that isn't the case with the other stuff they're canning. They'll let the next hardware failure that will be impossible to fix without that institutional knowledge kill it for them.
If we are talking 26% of $5m, come on commentards, lets get a crowd funder and paypal account going!
We could probably find that down the back of our collective sofa's, plus combine with every other kid who grew up with this in the 70's onwards and has gone into a career of science and technology......
Some government administrators really do need to be put on the first one-way human flight to mars.
Should be doable; the Planetary Society raised $1.24 million for a far less well known bit of space science.
Admittedly, a chunk of that money went on making and mailing out the physical rewards (comfy teeshirt, btw) so the goal would have to be higher for Voyager (although, obviously, KS isn't the only, or necessarily, the best platform; just that I knew of the response to this specific project).
but then splurge $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza and $35 to $40 million a year to protect Trump while just in Palm Beach.
I know where I would make budget cuts.
He has to scrape by on a measly trillion dollars (a year? the story didn't make that clear). We can't afford to spend good money on these scientific fripperies (which the great Robert Kennedy Jr has told us are all nonsense anyway - just read the Good Book!), else Musk and his makes (Zuck, Bezos etc) will starve!
Or they think Star Trek The Motion Picture is actually a biography and want to make sure that they don't come back.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/
The data file that drives the Voyager status website stopped being updated in mid September, Many other sites that track Voyagers also use the same data file.
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