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The CSA is contributing staff to operations as well, afaik. A more recent source says this (found through wikipedia). Values all appear to be up to launch, and
by geenew 5y ago
The CSA is contributing staff to operations as well, afaik.
A more recent source says this (found through wikipedia). Values all appear to be up to launch, and do not include operations.
NASA: 8,800m
ESA : 850m
CSA : 200m
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All : 9,850m
(No epoch given to dollars; presumably they are 2021 USD)
"Günther Hasinger, ESA director of science, estimated that Europe’s contributions to JWST, in the form of instruments and the Ariane 5 launch, to be about 700 million euros ($850 million), roughly the same as an ESA “M-class” science mission.
Gilles Leclerc, director general for space exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, said Canada’s contribution of an instrument and fine guidance sensors cost the agency about $200 million Canadian ($165 million) over 20 years. “This is an investment in discoveries of the universe,” he said.
NASA now estimates it will spend $8.8 billion on JWST through the spacecraft’s launch."[1][2]
Those numbers line up with a summary the Planetary Society put out.[3] That source includes info on the operations cost, at least for the US:
"The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to cost NASA $9.7 billion over 24 years. Of that amount, $8.8 billion was spent on spacecraft development between 2003 and 2021; $861 million is planned to support five years of operations. Adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars, the lifetime cost to NASA will be approximately $10.8 billion.
That is only NASA’s portion. The European Space Agency provided the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and two of the four science instruments for an estimated cost of €700 million. The Canadian Space Agency contributed sensors and scientific instrumentation, which cost approximately CA$200 million."
All three agencies will supply staff to support operations, which I guess makes sense since they've all contributed different instruments.[4]
[1] https://spacenews.com/jwst-launch-slips-to-november/ https://spacenews.com/jwst-launch-slips-to-november/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cost_and_schedule_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cos...
[3] https://www.planetary.org/articles/cost-of-the-jwst https://www.planetary.org/articles/cost-of-the-jwst
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Par...