Fraser Cain on Nostr: In March, we learned that NASA was getting about two billion dollars less than it had ...
In March, we learned that NASA was getting about two billion dollars less than it had requested, forcing difficult cuts across the agency. We will see agency-wide trimming and mission pushback, but one surprising outcome was the announcement that NASA will no longer support the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This hard-working X-ray mission has been operational since 1999 and used to make countless discoveries about the high-energy Universe. No replacement is planned.
https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/cdo/announcement.html Published at
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