Earth observing mission for USD 12 million? |
Earth observing mission for USD 12 million? |
May 13 2012, 12:13 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
Good evening all, I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question: I read this space.com article which quotes a cost for an Earth observing mission of 12 million US dollars (mission hardware only) using a swarm of nano-sats. This seems to me to remarkably cheap, so I was wondering if I am missing something, or if my ideas about what Earth observing missions cost is grossly inflated by only reading about the highest profile ones?
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