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As far as I know it won't be affected at all, the project is almost fully funded from the European Space Agency. And it will most likely be launched with the Eu
by hajola 2y ago
As far as I know it won't be affected at all, the project is almost fully funded from the European Space Agency. And it will most likely be launched with the European Ariane rocket.
- jcgrillo 2y agoexcellent, thanks.
- bane 2y agoAll the more reason why humanity needs multiple space programs.
- labster 2y agoI’m sure that will come up next year when they privatize NASA.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoYou mean when it gets named as a subdivision of SpaceX?
- yieldcrv 2y agoI love it when the Press Secretary says Doge with a straight face while defending attacks by reporters
- gosub100 2y agoyou mean make it like 10x more efficient and effective? I'm game.
- consp 2y ago10x more efficient in extracting wealth for its owner. Everything else is a myth.
- sour-taste 2y agoDon't forgot that they'll slash all the pesky regulations NASA has in place to keep astronauts safe, saving taxpayers millions!
- MurkyLabs 2y ago'Please watch this 5 minute ad to receive your next tank of oxygen'
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> you mean make it like 10x more efficient and effective? I'm game Different missions. SpaceX beats Boeing and Lockheed Martin. It does not have the skillset to build a James Webb or Europa Clipper.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoI wonder, is there any human endeavor other than space exploration (and maybe an occasional particle accelerator) that works like this? Sure, a big factor in the history of scientific progress is its structural resilience against localized political and economical kerfuffles, but that's more of an accident of how discovery and innovation are done - in small increments, achieved near-simultaneously by independent people or groups around the world (only one gets to take the credit, though). Meanwhile, it seems to me that space exploration needs to be organized into a competition to survive and thrive. To make things weirder, it's not about regular market competition - it's about staying in public consciousness, through continuously one-upping each other by Doing Something Impressive, which ends up attracting funding to all agencies each time (and conversely, when things get slow on the impressive achievements front, funding starts to dry out). (We had one dry spell after Space Shuttles were retired, and IMHO this one could've been fatal to the entire field. Thank $deity for NASA's funding of commercial launch services, and SpaceX surviving 2008 and taking advantage of it to get the Falcon 9 to work and effectively re-light the public interest again.) I imagine this is a transitional period; we're past the times of Cold War - times when everyone poured ~infinite money into weapons programs and space exploration got to leech some of it off - and we're not yet seeing the bootstrapping of cislunar economy on the horizon. I wonder if there's a more sustainable way of getting through to the other end, because relying on public interest feels rather risky. And, again, I can't think of any other field that is in this weird position.
- geraldwhen 2y agoYour time scale is so small. There are people alive today that witnessed the moon landing on television. Galactic timescales are large. Plan for 10,000 years out, not tomorrow.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago> Plan for 10,000 years out, not tomorrow. I'm happy to. But then, like most people, I'm impatient, so I'll draw a second plan that ensures I get to see at least some of the cool stuff before I die, and then I'll get annoyed when this plan isn't followed. Galactic timescales are large. Human lifespans are tiny.