![]() ![]() At an LA Tech Week panel hosted by Athlete Strategies about investing in sports, Angel City head of strategy and chief of staff Kari Fleischauer said that years before launching the women’s National Women’s Soccer League team, Angel City FC was pounding the pavement letting people know about the excitement ladies soccer can bring. In the soccer world, Los Angeles-based women’s soccer team Angel City FC has put in the work to become a household name, not just in LA County but across the nation. He added that this imaging could lead to information about life on other planets, or, at the very least, an understanding of why they’re no longer habitable. Surveying the makeup of planets’ atmospheres is a project “in the astrophysics domain we’re very excited about,” James said. In the long term, James was optimistic NASA’s imaging projects could lead to more dramatic discoveries. It is “an incredible fundamental physics machine,” James said, that’s run by “three Nobel Prize winners as principal investigators on the Space Station.” Cold Atom Lab is a physics experiment geared toward figuring out how quantum phenomena behave in space by cooling atoms with lasers to just below absolute zero degrees. One other ISS project is called Cold Atom Lab. James said the plan is to “tell you the kind of foliage health around the globe” from space. The mission sent a thermal radiometer onto the space station in June 2018 to monitor how plants lose water through their leaves, with the goal of figuring out how the terrestrial biosphere reacts to changes in water availability. It uses that data to remodel how mineral dust movement in North and South America might affect the Earth’s temperature changes.Īnother ISS mission JPL launched is called ECOSTRESS. The EMIT mission studies arid dust sources on the planet using spectroscopy. James added there are multiple missions outside or on board the ISS now taking data, including EMIT, which launched in July 2022. “The ISS is an incredible platform for us,” James said. It also is increasing its investment in space flight support, in-space transportation and commercial development of low-earth orbit (LEO). The agency requested roughly $1.3 billion to maintain the ISS. NASA’s also asking for more money to maintain the International Space Station (ISS), which houses a number of projects dedicated to better understanding the Earth’s climate and behavior. One is the SphereX Near Earth Objects surveyor mission, the goal of which is to use telescopes to “map the entire universe,” James said, adding that the mission was fully funded. JPL also got funding for several projects to map our universe. While there’s a number of high-profile missions the JPL is working on that are focused on Mars, including Mars Sample Return project (which received $949 million in this proposed budget) and Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance rover, JPL also received significant funding to study the Earth’s climate and behavior. As part of this, the majority is earmarked for the upcoming Artemis mission, which aims to land a woman and person of color on the Moon’s south pole. Overall, NASA’s asking for $8 billion from Congress to fund lunar exploration missions. ![]() Much of the money earmarked in the proposed 2024 budget is for crewed missions. NASA Employment and Output Impact Evan Xie The Moon and Mars James said that there was only one JPL mission that wasn’t funded – a mission to send an orbital satellite to survey the surface and interior of Venus, called VERITAS. Numerous contractors for NASA (including CalTech, which runs the JPL), Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and Northrop Grumman all stand to gain new contracts once the budget is finalized, partly because NASA simply needs the private industry’s help to achieve all its goals. The public-private partnership between NASA and local space companies continues to evolve, and the increased budget could be a boon for LA-based developers. James added the new budget is “an incredible support for all the missions we want to do.” There are 41 current missions run by JPL and CalTech, and another 16 scheduled for the future. In the last few years in general NASA has been able to have increased budgets.” “It’s generally bipartisan supported by both sides of the aisle. “In general, Congress has been very supportive” of the JPL and NASA’s missions, James said.
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