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NASA Faces Uncertain Future Under Proposed Budget Cuts
- On May 15, members of the U.S. House panel overseeing space and scientific matters held a meeting in Washington with researchers to examine NASA’s plans for addressing potential asteroid impacts on Earth.
- This meeting followed concerns about asteroid 2024 YR4, initially thought to pose a risk but later found harmless after position refinement by scientists.
- The conversation centered on NASA’s upcoming NEO Surveyor project, which aims to enhance the detection of potentially dangerous asteroids, including the dark objects that have been difficult to identify until now.
- NASA is facing a proposed overall budget reduction of 24%, with its science programs—including planetary defense—facing an even steeper cut of 47%, marking the most significant annual funding decrease the agency has experienced in U.S. history.
- If enacted, these cuts risk harming U.S. leadership in space, jeopardizing national security and competitive standing, while potentially delaying missions vital to planetary defense.
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Japan remains committed to moon missions as Trump cuts NASA budget, JAXA chief says
TOKYO - Japan is ready to support the United States' lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said on Friday, after the U.S. administration proposed a $6 billion cut to NASA's budget that could upend the Artemis programme to return people to the moon. Read more at straitstimes.com.
'Chainsaw and meat-ax’ budget cuts headed for key security agency as foreign threats grow
Space threats against the US are rising from China and Russia, and one of the government agencies that helps the Space Force protect against threats is facing major cuts, according to Politico reports. Speaking at the Politico Security Summit, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman told the outlet that China has created a “series of hundreds of satellites that are a sensor network that provide real-time updates, targeting quality info…
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