Just watched a video where the NASA employee said to the effect that NASA isn't shutting down, all these jobs are doing launches of Juno, then Grail etc.
So the question is how many NASA jobs are involved in these launches? Know ULA is a contractor, so they have x employees doing the launches.
The NASA Launch Services Program has about 300 civil servants and support contractors. They support all NASA unmanned launches.
Just watched a video where the NASA employee said to the effect that NASA isn't shutting down, all these jobs are doing launches of Juno, then Grail etc.
So the question is how many NASA jobs are involved in these launches? Know ULA is a contractor, so they have x employees doing the launches.
In terms of contractor employees, United Launch Alliance has already cut down to 3,700 workers from 4,400 and will reduce further, to 3,000. Those numbers, of course, primarily support U.S. EELV missions for the Pentagon. Many of the cuts are likely related to the end of Delta II.
There are many other Delta and Atlas related jobs at subcontractors like PWR, Energomash, L3 Communications, Honeywell, and the like.
- Ed Kyle
Just watched a video where the NASA employee said to the effect that NASA isn't shutting down, all these jobs are doing launches of Juno, then Grail etc.
So the question is how many NASA jobs are involved in these launches? Know ULA is a contractor, so they have x employees doing the launches.
In terms of contractor employees, United Launch Alliance has already cut down to 3,700 workers from 4,400 and will reduce further, to 3,000. Those numbers, of course, primarily support U.S. EELV missions for the Pentagon. Many of the cuts are likely related to the end of Delta II.
There are many other Delta and Atlas related jobs at subcontractors like PWR, Energomash, L3 Communications, Honeywell, and the like.
- Ed Kyle
I wonder how many additional cuts we will see thanks to this new 'debt deal'? On the order of a few dozen, or perhaps 100-200? They will likely squeeze everywhere they can to save political face, despite the consequences.