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For the low, low price of 2 gigabucks each. For an idea of scale, the entire VLA was built for ~80 megabucks. The entire Atacama Large Millimeter Array was bu
by brandmeyer 8y ago
For the low, low price of 2 gigabucks each.
For an idea of scale, the entire VLA was built for ~80 megabucks. The entire Atacama Large Millimeter Array was built for 1.4 gigabucks.
- isatty 8y agoGigabucks and megabucks is how I’ll be talking of money from now on.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoTotally worth it, even if to just add momentum to building space infrastructure and increase world's competence in space technologies. Things have changed quite a bit over past 20 years. Launches are getting much cheaper now, and satellites are getting smaller. I imagine costs could be brought down, especially if the scope of the mission was limited to e.g. simple constellation for radiointerferometry.