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Since Trump and his ilk came back to power he's been working to cut science across the federal government. This withdrawal from an international partnership is directly the result of that. NASA has little choice, but it still sucks—especially since I am (or, was) on the VenSAR science team. (2/2)

(3/2) ESA is pressing ahead with the EnVision mission by developing their own VenSAR radar replacement. The mission will still be hugely successful. But when bilateral international agreements are cancelled unilaterally by politicians, US scientific collaborations and *science leadership* suffer.

I listened in on some of that meeting. PSD is dancing around the questions, required to speak happy words. For instance, they are doing studies of flagship class missions that are not going to produce anything useful. But they have to do it.

as in international relations, the emerging narrative is that the US does not honour its agreements its a bold strategy, let’s see if it pans out