p2pnet.net OT News:- NASA is slated for 2.4% budget increase under US president George W. Bush’s 2006 fiscal plans.

But the world famous Hubble Space Telescope and a mission to explore Jupiter’s moons will probably be axed.

Robotics being developed for the exploration of Mars and the moon are among projects getting the biggest increases in the proposed budget, says Bloomberg News.

But it doesn’t include funding to send a robot to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, which is expected to fail in two years if its batteries and gyroscopes aren’t replaced, Steve Isakowitz, deputy associate administrator for the exploration systems mission directorate, is quoted as saying.

“The orbiting space observatory, which has helped verify the age of the universe and sent back thousands of images since it was launched in 1990, is a ‘spacecraft that is dying’, Bloomberg has him stating

Nor does the budget include cash for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission, which would send a spacecraft to the moons orbiting the solar system’s largest planet to test new propulsion technologies, Isakowitz said.

Expect to see all kinds of Save the Hubble sites launched around the world.

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expected to fail - NASA to Get a 2.4% Budget Increase Without Hubble Robot Funding, Bloomberg News, February 7, 2005

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