http://blog.aas.org/2011/09/21/fy2012-appropriations-for-astronomy/ The Steady State of the Union Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.aas.org/2011/09/21/fy2012-appropriations-for-astronomy/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 Mabel Stafford Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:34:42 +0000 http://blog.aas.org/?p=236#comment-3724 The Earth science budget will receive a significant boost of $382 million for a total requested budget for FY 2011 of $1,802 million. The budget will allow NASA to develop and refly the Orbiting Carbon Observatory ($170 million), accelerates the development of new satellites for Earth science ($150 million), expands and accelerates Venture-class missions, enhances climate change modeling capabilities, operates 15 Earth-observing spacecraft, launches three satellites, Glory, NPOESS Preparatory Project and Aquarius in FY 2011 and proceeds toward completion and launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (June 2013) and the Global Precipitation Measurement mission (July 2013).

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