Donald Trump wants to hit space research. Elon Musk: Disturbing

According to them Complete financing will be reduced by 20 percent. – from $ 25 to 20 billion (from 94 to 75 billion PLN). However, the scientific management will suffer the biggest losses, which supervises research in the field of astrophysics, planetology, heliophysics and earth research. The Astrophysics Department risk losing two -thirds of its budget and will receive only $ 487 million. (PLN 1.8 billion) instead of the current $ 1.5 billion (PLN 5.6 billion). The same applies to heliophysics: only $ 455 million is planned for this area. (PLN 1.7 billion), i.e. 67 percent less. Financing of earth sciences will be reduced by 50 % to $ 1.03 billion. (PLN 3.8 billion), and planetology by 30 percent, to approx. 1.93 billion dollars (PLN 7.2 billion).

The draft budget proposes to continue financing the telescopes of Hubble and James Webb, which are already arranged and operate in space. However, support for the new Nancy Grace Roman telescope was excluded to study galaxies, stars and distant planets, although it has already been assembled and is tested at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It was to be launched in the autumn of 2026. The cost of the entire period of the telescope was to be $ 4.3 billion. (PLN 16 billion).