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It’s certainly cheaper than funding the research and the cost to send stuff to space has gone down and continues to go down
by grugagag 6y ago
It’s certainly cheaper than funding the research and the cost to send stuff to space has gone down and continues to go down
- throwaway2048 6y agoYou seem pretty confident of this, share your numbers.
- grugagag 6y agoI cant find the numbers for the EmDrive research for the past 20 years but my guess is that it wasn’t cheap at all. Comparing that to sending a few pounds into orbit as a proof of concept is probably peanuts. I don’t have numbers and its all speculation on my part. If you do have numbers please share them
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- GoOnThenDoTell 6y agoA small orbital rocket (like from Rocket Lab) costs 7-ish million. Then you have to actually design and build the payload/observation equipment to fit such a small rocket