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For some context, that's roughly the cost of a single instrument for the Hubble (~$100M). There's no free lunch in the space business...
by damoncali 11y ago
For some context, that's roughly the cost of a single instrument for the Hubble (~$100M). There's no free lunch in the space business...
- jimrandomh 11y agoBut do realize that the replacement cost of an instrument is much lower than the original creation cost; most of the cost of these things is designing and tooling, and not part of the unit cost of the actual article.
- solomatov 11y agoThere're much more expensive satellites. See, for example, http://www.space.com/11606-rocket-launches-missile-defense-satellite-geo-1-sbirs.html http://www.space.com/11606-rocket-launches-missile-defense-s...