Goodby blue sky, I'm leaving tonite . . .
The Hubble Space Telescope and a mission to explore Jupiters moons look to be the biggest casualties in Nasas 2006 budget plans outlined on Monday.
Nasas total budget would rise 2.4% over 2005 to about $16.5bn, but only $93m would be spent on Hubble. About $75m of that will be aimed at bringing the observatory down to Earth safely, officials have announced.
The multi-billion dollar Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) mission was to have been launched in about 2015 as a demonstration for the Project Prometheus nuclear power and propulsion initiative. It would have gone into orbit around the giant planet and its moons, possibly putting landers on their surfaces in much the same way as Cassini has done with Huygens on Titan. Nasa officials now say Jimo is too ambitious an undertaking for an initial demonstration project, and a search for an alternative mission is underway...
de donde? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm
Nasas total budget would rise 2.4% over 2005 to about $16.5bn, but only $93m would be spent on Hubble. About $75m of that will be aimed at bringing the observatory down to Earth safely, officials have announced.
The multi-billion dollar Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) mission was to have been launched in about 2015 as a demonstration for the Project Prometheus nuclear power and propulsion initiative. It would have gone into orbit around the giant planet and its moons, possibly putting landers on their surfaces in much the same way as Cassini has done with Huygens on Titan. Nasa officials now say Jimo is too ambitious an undertaking for an initial demonstration project, and a search for an alternative mission is underway...
de donde? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm
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