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U.S. Space Force budget hits $30 billion in 2024 proposal - Space News

https://spacenews.com/u-s-space-force-budget-hits-30-billion-in-2024-funding-proposal

Breakdown from the article for people who are lazy.

  • $19.2 billion for research, development, testing and engineering (RDT&E)

  • $4.7 billion for procurement

  • $4.9 billion for operations and maintenance

  • $1.2 billion for military personnel

It's a LOT of money, doubling the USSF budget from 2021. It's more than NASA's budget in the same year, and a good chunk of NASA's budget goes into aeronautical research. And two thirds of that massive number is going into R&D. That's a huge perk of the Air/Space force split, is that there's now an incredibly well funded US government branch exclusively funding new space tech, and then buying a lot of it too. That's going to dramatically increase the amount of new tech available to everyone as these same companies will reuse what they develop on other satellites.

A lot of that money is going into LEO satellites, and a lot of it into new launch vehicles. There's a huge focus on smaller spacecraft that can be built faster and sent up cheaper, and it looks like micro/picosat constellations are now definitely the way forward.

More funding means more actors in space means more spacecraft means more people involved means growing industry. We're all gonna make it :marseyastronaut2:

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space force hits 30 billion

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U.S military budget at 1.3 trillion

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Imagine if we had a 1.6 trillion space budget. :marseyhmm: We could make aliens r-slurred :marseyalien:

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Unironically if we find aliens that are not of plant origin (no microbes or animals coming from meteor debris of earth origin) I say just kill them and colonize the universe, would solve so much problems.

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I've got a better idea: let's just start paying reparations to them indefinitely instead.

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But do the aliens got fat asses tho???

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I’m open to forced sterilization.

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grabby aliens dot com

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First, determine if the aliens are frickable. If not, kill on sight.

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As soon as one of those greyskinned bastards show up we'll have a new sworn enemy to sic our military industrial complex on


Give me your money and I'll annoy people with it :space: https://i.rdrama.net/images/16965516366194396.webp

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I can understand the reason for increase in budget but...

Big increase for LEO satellites,

I don't understand why police officers have to get their satellites from defence budget? :marseyhmm:

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