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According to the easily-found stats on Wikipedia [1,2], the MRO cost $720 million, whereas the Greek bailout given in 2010 (alone) was €110 ($119) billion. Not
by maxander 10y ago
According to the easily-found stats on Wikipedia [1,2], the MRO cost $720 million, whereas the Greek bailout given in 2010 (alone) was €110 ($119) billion. Notice the "m" in the first and the "b" in the second- your "starting point" is orders of magnitude beyond the resources we're talking about here.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#2010_revelations_and_IMF_bailout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#2...
- Symbiote 10y agoIndeed, the entire ESA budget for this year is €5.2 billion, of which a third is Earth observation satellites. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/01/ESA_budget_2016_by_domain http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/01/ESA_budget_2...
- elkos 10y agoAnd as a Greek I see that day by day we are taking advantage more and more the data available from EO satellites. You need lots of data to restart the economy.