When pressed for further details on the budget decisions for VERITAS, Glaze said that the pandemic increased operational costs, and that spike meant missions that were closer to launch like Lucy and DART ended up costing higher than their initial budgets. Problems with NASA asteroid mission Psyche delay Venus probe's launch to 2031 Scientists hail 'the decade of Venus' with 3 new missions on the way Glaze said it is "absolutely critical" for the two missions to launch on time because "they take a lot of resources on center" and delays to either would hold up personnel and resources needed for VERITAS. "This stand down order is highly unusual, perhaps unprecedented."Īt LPSC, Glaze said restarting VERITAS as soon as 2025 is dependent on three criteria: Securing funding, having JPL show progress in solving the reported issues, and timely launch of two other missions scheduled for 2024 - Europa Clipper and NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar ( NISAR). Usually, a small amount of "bridge funding" allows scientists to keep making progress on critical aspects of the mission, but "VERITAS requested such bridge funding at a meeting in January 2023 and was turned down," Dyar told. The proposed $1.5 million allocated to VERITAS is not sufficient to keep the team together in the coming years, which is not the norm for delayed missions. "The idea of standing the team down to help other missions just doesn't make sense in detail, and is really going to introduce a great deal of risk," Dyar told. Most work happens at the mission's spacecraft provider Lockheed Martin and with foreign partners, while a third to half of the JPL workforce is focused on developing VISAR at any given time.ĭyar said "VERITAS has a very light footprint in the specific workforce shortages identified by the Psyche report." So given the workforce shortages at JPL and cost of the Psyche delay, a 12-18 month delay can be justified - but not a three year one, the VERITAS team argues. While missions closest to launch like Psyche always have higher priority and using personnel from other missions to help meet projected launch dates is already how things work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "the vast majority of VERITAS' workforce is not at JPL," Darby Dyar, VERTIAS' deputy principal investigator told in an email. The copyright law extends its protection to unpublished works from the moment of creation in a tangible form.An artist's depiction of the VERITAS mission concept, designed to explore Venus. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excesses of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Users of these materials are advised to determine the copyright status of any document from which they wish to publish. Some of the archival materials in this collection may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museumĭocuments in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States as part of their official duties are in the public domain.
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