Two Iconic NASA Space Telescopes Could Get Their Funding Slashed

The space agency is considering budget cuts to Hubble and Chandra in anticipation of a flat budget for 2024.

NASA is considering reducing the budget for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope as the space agency grapples with its spending for the upcoming year. During a presentation at the National Academies’ Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics on Friday, Mark Clampin, director of NASA’s astrophysics division, revealed that he was looking into funding cuts for two of the space agency’s oldest missions, SpaceNews reported.

The Chandra X-ray observatory launched on July 23, 1999, and has racked up around $913 million since then. The reason NASA is looking into the budget of those two space telescopes is because they have been running for a long time. “Chandra has a number of issues right now. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to operate,” Clampin said, according to SpaceNews. “While Hubble doesn’t have those issues, it has been operating for a long time and it is a large piece of the astrophysics budget.

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