At least three ESA space missions are under threat as a result of Trump's budget cuts. The gravitational wave observatory LISA, Venus orbiter EnVision, and NewAthena may require "recovery actions."

Nor was that the end of the bad news. The next day Donald Trump, America’s president, announced he was withdrawing his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a well-regarded businessman and private astronaut, as NASA ’s boss. For at least the next several months, the agency will have to contemplate its straitened future without a permanent leader.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has started consolidating dozens of its social media accounts. It’ll archive platforms in coming weeks focused on the moon, the Earth’s climate, the Perseverance Mars rover, and the Orion spacecraft: the Artemis program vehicle that will one day take astronauts back to the lunar surface.