Uh, missions are designed to last max five years, so you're not gonna find any savings there. Maybe if you cut the high reliability requirements to five months

Uh, missions are designed to last max five years, so you're not gonna find any savings there. Maybe if you cut the high reliability requirements to five months you can skimp on some stuff, but I'm not sure that actually relaxes demands so much as that's still a lot of thermal cycles to maintain instrument alignment over.