NASA Dawn asteroid mission told to ‘stand down’ |
NASA Dawn asteroid mission told to ‘stand down’ |
Nov 7 2005, 03:55 PM
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NASA Dawn Asteroid Mission Told To ‘Stand Down’ .
The decision to stand down, according to SPACE.com sources, appears related to budget-related measures and workforce cutbacks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/051107_dawn_qown.html Rakhir |
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Nov 7 2005, 09:09 PM
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Andy Dantzler said at the COMPLEX meeting that the main question is whether the big parade of technical problems Dawn has been having are just a chance bad-luck collection of unconnected problems, or whether there's some programmatic cause for them. He also wants to know whether the cost of eliminating them will be too excessive. Thus the stand-down until an assessment group can look at this, since Dawn has a very long launch window.
As for Discovery, the only thing delaying release of the latest AO is the fact that Congress has yet to decide whether to stick to the Senate's current insistence on retaining the current $350 million cost cap (which Dantzler says would be disastrous) instead of raising it to $450 million as NASA wants. |
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