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Anyone know how cost effective this is? As in can NASA start outsourcing moon missions?
by hos234 7y ago
Anyone know how cost effective this is? As in can NASA start outsourcing moon missions?
- sidcool 7y agoThe mission has been executed on a shoe string budget. More than outsourcing, a partnership will be more beneficial. NASA's advanced Technology and ISRO's low costs could be explored.
- greglindahl 7y agoNASA and ISRO are already partners, including for this very mission.
- perseusprime11 7y ago~$140M.
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- robofanatic 7y agoYou mean let go NASA scientists?
- actuator 7y agoI think he meant use ISRO's operations to send NASA's probes, rovers, satellites etc. for missions like these. NASA still gets to study and conduct experiments at a lower cost.
- robofanatic 7y agoThat also means let go a chunk of NASA employees handling those operations.
- actuator 7y agoYeah, but then again NASA using Soyuz or SpaceX does that anyway.
- robofanatic 7y agoOk you mean now lets handover the dirty job of logistics from Earth to Space to Indians and liberate NASA to focus on more important things. Good Idea!
- actuator 7y agoMan, you have a very weird way of twisting what I said. Anyway, I would refrain from explaining myself.
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- robofanatic 7y agoI didn't mean to twist the topic. I don't see any other benefit of outsourcing. IMO NASA can't afford to pay it's scientists to think about getting something from point A on earth to point B in outer space anymore.
- alphakappa 7y agoThe problem space of space is infinitely large. Outsourcing some parts mean that you can focus on others. Every space agency and company on Earth do not need to work on the exact same problems, that’s all.
- actuator 7y agoIt is carrying payload from NASA as well. I think partnerships like these would be better for everyone as cost of a individual launch is still high.
- oyebenny 7y agoWhat a weird question...
- sephamorr 7y agoThe scientific payloads of missions (development, design, manufacturing, operation, analysis) are usually a large percentage of the total mission's cost. It's worth looking at the exact scientific capabilities of a mission while comparing it with the cost. It's amazing how economically the Indians sent a probe to Mars, but its scientific capabilities were far smaller than the billion dollar NASA missions.