The Astronomycast Episode 507, Ion Engines.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmos where we help you

understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kain, publisher of Universe Today, with me, as always, Dr. Pavlovich, a senior

scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosm request.

Hey, Pavlovich, are you doing it?

You know, I have to admit, things are kind of meh right now.

Yeah.

So, I have this great brand new job and it's one of these things where, for years, Cosm request,

Astronomycast, we've been trying to have a major impact while working from small institutions

that are more focused on education than research.

It turns out, sometimes, you're better off when you're with the, well, the big publishers

at the big research institutions and so I looked for a job and looked to move my entire

program over to the Planetary Science Institute after happily getting hired and NASA isn't letting

us cancel or isn't letting us transfer our grant and is in fact cancelling our grant

so no one gets to keep the grant.

Merry Christmas, unless there is a miracle I have to fire my entire staff, including myself,

because in astronomy you can have a job and no salary.

So yeah, that happened.

Ouch.

So, and of course, I mean that this grant, so can you just explain briefly what this grant

has been covering and was expected to cover?

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