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NASA astrophysics missions spared after performance review
The results of a ranking of nine ongoing NASA astrophysics missions are in, and the winners are: Everyone! For months, astronomers on the missions were worried that a low ranking in the process, called the senior review, would lead to budgetary cuts. But the senior review committee found each of them to be deserving of extended funding, and NASA has apparently been able to find the money to support that recommendation. According to a statement from NASA headquarters, all missions will continue in fiscal years 2013 and 2014. The guest observer programme for the Chandra X-ray Observatory would even be augmented. Only Spitzer (pictured), an infrared telescope, would be phased out earlier than the mission wanted, in 2015.
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