'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch

JWST faces potential 20% budget cut 4 years after launch | Space Quiz! How far away if the Milky Way's satellite dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud? | ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Musk says Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com |  Web Version February 21, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE The Launchpad (dima_zel/iStock/Getty Images) JWST faces potential 20% budget cut 4 years after launch The team overseeing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been directed to prepare for up to 20% in budget cuts that would touch on every aspect of the flagship observatory's operations, which are managed by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Maryland. The potential cut comes even as the space observatory is more in demand than ever before, with astronomers requesting the equivalent of nine years' worth of Webb observing time in one operational year. Read More Space Quiz! How far away if the Milky Way's satellite dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud? Learn the answer here! 20,000 light-years 2 million light-years 200,000 light-years 2,000 light-years (NASA/Roscosmos) ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Musk says Elon Musk thinks we should start moving on from the International Space Station (ISS). The end is already in sight for the outpost, which has been showing signs of its advanced age. But its international partners plan to bring the station down in a controlled fashion in 2030, using a deorbit vehicle provided by SpaceX. Read More Spaceflight (Blue Origin) Blue Origin announces crew for 10th space tourism launch We now know who's flying on Blue Origin's next suborbital space tourism mission -- most of them, anyway. NS-30 will lift off from Blue Origin's West Texas launch site at an as-yet unspecified date. It will carry six people on a brief trip to and from suborbital space, and the company just revealed who five of them are. Read More Science & Astronomy (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda et al., ESA/Herschel) Some baby stars were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets When it comes to baby blankets, the fluffier, the better - and astronomers have discovered that some infant stars in the early universe also preferred "fluffy" pre-natal cocoons. Scientists have learned a great deal about star formation in the universe, but it remains a mystery if stellar bodies formed the same way in the early cosmos. Read More SpaceX (Bennett Theile) Falcon 9 rocket debris creates fireball over Europe A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early Wednesday (Feb. 19), blazing a trail of fire through European skies. Across the English region of Lincolnshire, the fireball was visible over homes, with locals posting images on social media Read More Search for Life (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Curiosity discovers evidence of ripples from ancient lake Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago, however, liquid water flowed freely across the planet. And, while NASA's various Mars rovers have uncovered signs that such water once existed on Mars, there's perhaps no better evidence of an ice-free, shallow lake than these two sets of ripples in Martian rock. Read More Entertainment (Warner Bros. Pictures) 10 years after 'Jupiter Ascending', and we're still confused The Wachowskis' attempt at reenergizing the space opera genre is widely considered to be a low point in their career, but maybe we were too harsh? Read More On This Day in Space (Ullstein Bild/Getty) Feb. 21, 1931: Germany's 1st liquid-fuel rocket launches On Feb. 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of. The rocket only made it about 10 feet off the ground. To be fair, the rocket itself was only two feet tall, so it did achieve an altitude of about five times its height. The rocket was named Hückel-Winkler 1 after the engineers who designed and built it. Hückel-Winkler 1 was powered by a combination of liquid oxygen and liquid methane. It lifted off from a drilling field near Dessau, Germany on two separate flights. After the first launch was a failure, the rocket did reach its planned altitude of 500 feet during its second flight three weeks later. Read More   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036