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Nature 415, 249 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415249b
Space agency pulls the plug on astrometry mission
Tony Reichhardt
A NASA mission that was to have measured the positions of stars with unprecedented accuracy has been cancelled because of cost overruns and problems with its detectors.The Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME), which was selected in 1999 as one of the agency's medium-sized Explorer missions, was due to launch in 2004.
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