If you wanted to estimate value, you could do that based on the fixed cost you mentioned, as well as the ground-side operation and maintenance costs (including

If you wanted to estimate value, you could do that based on the fixed cost you mentioned, as well as the ground-side operation and maintenance costs (including salaries). And assuming you were talking about the market price of using the channel for just anything, add some valuation of the opportunity costs of not using the line for the things NASA will use it for. edit: why bother saying this? Private industry is entering space, professionals who know something (unlike me) will be very interested in figuring out the value of things NASA has been doing.