<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Concerns arise among Gravitational Wave astronomers over draft budgets proposed by NASA and NSF for the upcoming year.</li><li>NASA's budget request includes discontinuing funding for LISA, a space-based GW observatory with three spacecraft linked by laser beams.</li><li>LISA was a joint proposal to ESA and NASA in the early 1990s, with NASA re-engaging in 2017 to contribute expertise and key components.</li><li>LIGO, using similar interferometric techniques to LISA, detected GW events from black hole mergers in 2015 and neutron star binaries in 2017.</li><li>Armagh is involved in projects like GOTO and BlackGEM aimed at detecting optical counterparts of GW events, crucial for identifying their origins.</li><li>While LIGO detectors maintained operational plans until 2025, concerns about budget cuts impact the ability to pinpoint GW event locations accurately.</li><li>Astronomers are awaiting US Congress decisions on the final budget allocations affecting GW research projects.</li></ul>

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