Sentences with phrase «planetary science funding»

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden put himself at odds with some members of Congress when he proposed a $ 300 - million reduction in planetary science funding that would hit JPL particularly hard.

The Simons Foundation and the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science funded this research.

Not exact matches

Within NASA, Senate appropriators would carry out a large $ 234 million or 12.7 percent cut to Planetary Science, while keeping Earth Science funded at last year's levels — the inverse approach to their House counterparts (see chart at right).

Within NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the budget provides Planetary Science with a 4.5 percent increase, including a $ 150 million boost above FY 2017 omnibus funding, to $ 425 million total, for a planned mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

Within the directorate, funding for planetary science, astrophysics and heliophysics would increase, while Earth science would take a slight hit.

«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.

Dreier was also pleased to see the boost, since Earth science funding was often targeted as a way for Congress to support rises within planetary science.

Jim Green, the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pPlanetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pplanetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant proposals.

Shapiro stresses that it is unclear whether Congress will give further funds to planetary protection, noting that if it doesn't, there is a risk of the money being taken away from space science.

Earlier this month, NASA unveiled a draft set of rules for its next Discovery competition, which funds planetary science missions costing no more than $ 450 million.

At that point the programme would outstrip NASA's planetary science programme in funding, receiving an extra $ 17 million in fiscal year 2014.

NASA science programs — and in particular planetary science programs — would receive a funding boost under a proposed House of Representatives spending bill for fiscal year 2015.

He added that since President Obama entered office, there has been a «disproportionate increase» in funding for Nasa's earth science programme, which has come at the expense of space exploration as well as planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics.

Coauthor Eli Silver, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and others in the CRISP program decided to pursue a 3 - D seismic study, which must precede any deep drilling, and the project was funded by the National Science Foundation in 2009.

NASA's planetary science division would receive $ 1.9 billion in 2018 under Trump's budget, a plan that includes funding for the 2020 Mars rover and the Europa Clipper mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean - harboring moon.

He has received funding from the UK Space Agency and the Science & Technology Facilities Council for work related to Mercury and the European Space Agency's Mercury orbiter BepiColombo, and is currently funded by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 programme for work on planetary geological mapping (776276 Planmap).

The Obama Administration has allocated «a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds» for earth science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.»

The Administration's decision to cut funding for NASA's planetary science program, especially the decision to not participate in what was planned as NASA - European Space Agency joint missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018 — was also mentioned.

The work is funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA's Outer Planets Research and Planetary Geology and Geophysics Programs.

Dawn is a planetary space science mission funded by NASA's Discovery Program.

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