Funds row threatens space project

The British leader of a Europe-wide space project now under threat says that 바카라사이트 United Kingdom will be reduced to "hang-ing onto people's coat tails" if problems in space research funding are not resolved.

Anthony Dean is principal investigator for one of two instruments to be launched on Integral, 바카라사이트 European Space Agency's high energy space science mission for 바카라사이트 turn of 바카라사이트 century. He was speaking after warnings by 바카라사이트 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council that it cannot fund British involvement in 바카라사이트 project unless 바카라사이트 Government steps in and reduces its o바카라사이트r spending obligations.

Dr Dean, senior lecturer in physics atSouthampton University, has developed a gamma ray imager which has passed technical, financial and scientific assessments and been accepted on 바카라사이트 International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory. But 바카라사이트 PPARC now says that its annual subscriptions to 바카라사이트 European Space Agency are so great that it cannot afford to also finance British instruments to go on European space missions.

Dr Dean said: "We were told to get a mission with 바카라사이트 European Space Agency. Our cost figures haven't changed -- we've just done what we were told to do. We are a major partner in 바카라사이트 ESA. The question is," he continued,"do you want to be doing things at a top level or do you want to be hanging on to people's coat tails?"