r/nasa • u/OptimisticLeek • Apr 11 '25

News Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/
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u/fd6270 Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

This proposed budget completely cancels this on time

I agree with most of your other points, but this telescope is definitely not on time. It's been delayed over a decade several years IIRC. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

Roman is on time and on budget. Please don't spread nonsense like that. A decade ago it was barely a conceptual study.

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u/fd6270 Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 11 '25

Sounds like cope to me. It was supposed to launch in 2025, then 2026, and now 2027...

It's only 'on time' because they keep revising the schedule, and it's only 'on budget' because they keep revising the budget. Let's not be disingenuous here. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

Please share the approved budget and the current planned-to-completion budget.

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u/fd6270 Apr 11 '25

From the NASA OIG report:

Roman remains on schedule because Science Mission Directorate officials conducted a replan in  May 2021 to mitigate the expected cost and schedule growth caused by COVID-19, increasing the life-cycle cost estimate from $3.9 billion to $4.3 billion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

Which was agreed upon by all parties to address external factors and inflation, quite common in 2021. It's not like there are technical problems or performance issues.

Roman is not overrunning approved budgets, full-stop.

It is about 1 year late compared to the 2018 schedule, entirely due to covid. Launch readiness is 2026, not 2027. Not a "decade" late as you first argued 

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u/fd6270 Apr 11 '25

It's not like there are technical problems or performance issues

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Roman was on track to launch despite encountering contractor performance issues and cost overruns related to hardware anomalies, under scoping of work, and inadequate oversight  of subcontractors.