Comments on: Links: Future of NASA missions, Diversity Handbook, and more. http://www.astrobetter.com/links-future-of-nasa-missions-diversity-handbook-and-more/ Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mr Squid http://www.astrobetter.com/links-future-of-nasa-missions-diversity-handbook-and-more/#comment-2695 Mr Squid Sat, 08 May 2010 15:54:18 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=2107#comment-2695 Warm Spitzer said the magic word: exoplanets. They successfully sold themselves as a major exoplanet observatory. Warm Spitzer said the magic word: exoplanets. They successfully sold themselves as a major exoplanet observatory.

]]> By: Marshall http://www.astrobetter.com/links-future-of-nasa-missions-diversity-handbook-and-more/#comment-2691 Marshall Fri, 07 May 2010 22:38:31 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=2107#comment-2691 Warm Spitzer certainly did very well, though! No surprises that Chandra was approved - it really is the only game in town for high angular resolution X-ray, and as the committee rightly said won't be replaced for decades. Note that GALEX actually gets two more years before the funding ends. And INTEGRAL is 95% European, so I strongly suspect that the committee expects the mission to keep going as a pure-European affair. Warm Spitzer certainly did very well, though!

No surprises that Chandra was approved – it really is the only game in town for high angular resolution X-ray, and as the committee rightly said won’t be replaced for decades.

Note that GALEX actually gets two more years before the funding ends. And INTEGRAL is 95% European, so I strongly suspect that the committee expects the mission to keep going as a pure-European affair.

]]> By: Jane Rigby http://www.astrobetter.com/links-future-of-nasa-missions-diversity-handbook-and-more/#comment-2690 Jane Rigby Fri, 07 May 2010 18:37:29 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=2107#comment-2690 Senior Review: So Planck gets a longer mission. GALEX, RXTE, and INTEGRAL get their funding cut. Warm WISE gets rejected harshly (no extended source catalog -- sad.) Chandra certainly came out well, with only a recommendation to end the GTO program, and automate more. Senior Review: So Planck gets a longer mission. GALEX, RXTE, and INTEGRAL get their funding cut. Warm WISE gets rejected harshly (no extended source catalog — sad.) Chandra certainly came out well, with only a recommendation to end the GTO program, and automate more.

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