ILCリニアーコライダーの予算に匹敵する88億ドル、
一兆円弱の予算の
the James webb telescope 宇宙望遠鏡をスタートさせるらしい。完成年は４年後。
アメリカは盗聴と戦争ばかりにむかうとおもいきや宇宙物理にも資金を出すのだった。アメリカにはなんか指導原理があるんだろうか？
いやよく見ると予算が通らない可能性もあるようだ。
GREENBELT, MD. — The $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, now in what is expected to be the most expensive year of its protracted development, could find itself back in trouble if Congress cannot keep the money coming, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said here Feb. 3.
“We’re right on the cost-line,” Bolden told reporters at the Goddard Space Flight Center here. “Stability in the budget is critical. It’s being able to know that the next year, and the next year, and the next year, right up to launch, we’re going to have the funds.”
JWST, a flagship astrophysics mission, is expected to launch in 2018 on a five-year primary mission to observe the infrared universe from a gravitationally stable perch 1.6 million kilometers from Earth. Congress last month approved $658.2 million for the project for 2014. Before JWST entered development, around the turn of the century, program officials projected it would cost $1 billion to $3.5 billion and launch between 2007 to 2011, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Jan. 8.
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