The political science commence to exclude down on Tuesday morning after Congress embarrassingly failed to get along to an arrangement on the budget . It ’s bad word . While science and technology programs as a wholetook a smash , NASA ’s MAVEN spacecraft set is particularly screwed .
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-government-shutdown-would-affect-science-and-tech-1426859370
As the bulk of the space means give way into hibernation for the continuance of the shutdown , those run on the MAVEN mission must be receive extra nervous . The NASA employee behind the For All Mankind Tumblrboils it down into brutal full term :
In the unlikely event that the closure hold up longer than a few sidereal day , the processing flow of the satellite may induce the launch date to steal . If the launching engagement slips beyond the close of the launch window … .
A $ 650 million dollar sign commission will have to be put into storage until 2016 , and the overall scientific discipline output of the vehicle will be reduced significantly because of the solar cycles/second .
That ’s a plenty of dollar mark ! The MAVENis supposed to flyto Mars and figure out why the planet ’s atmosphere disintegrated so many years ago and perhaps bring home the bacon clues on what bechance to running water and animation on the red satellite . The mission ’s spacecraft is designed after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey , and will be equipped with three musical instrument suites for sensing speck in what ’s left of the Martian air .
This is just one program that stand to suffer during the shutdown , by the way . All of the NASA - black market visitor ’s centers around the country will also shut down , turning off a helpful stream of receipts . In the end , over 16,000 of the 18,250 total NASA employee will be furloughed . All because of a small Capitol Hill saber - rattle . [ For All Mankind ]
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