{"id":794391,"date":"2025-03-14T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794391"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:47:03","slug":"a-time-for-action-the-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794391","title":{"rendered":"A time for action | The Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISS astronauts are speaking up for the station.\u00a0<\/strong>In response to Elon Musk\u2019s claim that the International Space Station was no longer useful and should be deorbited, astronauts currently aboard the station spoke to the press about the important science still being conducted on the ISS, advocating for its continued operations. <i>Pictured: The International Space Station in 2021. Image credit: NASA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/planetary\/images\/image_library_earth.png\" alt=\"Earth\" class=\"inline h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA is reducing its workforce to comply with an Executive Order.<\/strong> The agency announced this week that cuts will include shutting down the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and a branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Further layoffs are expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/image_library_solarsystem.png\" alt=\"Solar System\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voyager 1 and 2 can continue collecting science data by shutting off some instruments. <\/strong>To manage the twin spacecraft\u2019s dwindling power supply, Voyager mission engineers have turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 and will shut off Voyager 2\u2019s low-energy charged particle instrument. This will allow the instruments most useful for studying the heliosphere and interstellar space to operate for longer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/planetary\/images\/image_library_earth.png\" alt=\"Earth\" class=\"inline h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>SpaceX\u2019s Starship exploded in a recent test launch. <\/strong>The eighth Starship Integrated Flight Test (IFT-8) took place last week, resulting in an explosion above the Caribbean. SpaceX did succeed in catching the Super Heavy booster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/planetary\/images\/image_library_moon.png\" alt=\"Moon\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Intuitive Machines lunar lander mission ended prematurely.<\/strong> The private company\u2019s IM-2 lander reached the Moon on March 6 but landed in a shadowed crater where its solar cells could not charge. The spacecraft, which was intended to operate for 10 days, ran out of batteries after 13 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/the-downlink\/a-time-for-action?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISS astronauts are speaking up for the station.\u00a0In response to Elon Musk\u2019s claim that the International Space Station was no longer useful and should be deorbited, astronauts currently aboard the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}