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NASA creates space sustainability division to consolidate orbital debris activities (spacenews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sadly no mention of fund increases?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not, but the consolidation might free up resources for other projects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Creating a new department does not "free up resources."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It depends, while a new division would create new administrative jobs, director, managers, etc

Currently 3-4 people could be doing the same work in different areas. Not only that, you now have multiple versions of the same data floating around. Which leads to people having to track down why it's different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm not willing to accuse NASA of being inefficient with Budget or time management. I read this as "unfortunately NASA has to work and plan around all of our space garbage instead of just the work they want to be doing."