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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And even where companies or other institutions are building a lot of the hardware NASA needs to manage the overall project.  Carr NASA budgets will also cut funding of science programs to places that build satellites like Lockheed and others. NASA engineers themselves build some sensors, [b]but I don’t think they have built to their own spacecraft bus in quite some time[/b].  And that’s fine. It’s a commodity.

But the space companies don’t care that much because NASA is not their big customer..[/quote]

The bus for Roman was built at Goddard. A bus for deep space use isn’t a commodity - there’s no real commercial market for that. [/quote]

Didn't realize that. I expect the uniqueness of the bus was more due to the size of the telescope and the cleanliness requirements than where it was headed.  Lockheed and Ball have built successful deep space busses, especially lockheed. Obviously for science misions, but a lot of the bus compenents translate between LEO and beyond.  But i guess they aren't really commercial either.

My main point wwas that cutting the NASA budget means cutting the budget for science missions, which includes any science missions built by lockheed or ball or APL or JPL - not just the ones GSFC itself builds hardware for.[/quote]

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