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 Apr 1 2006, 08:16 PM
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Yep, another nice round number to celebrate. 'Course, this one is slightly bittersweet now that Spirit has lost some mobility. But I remain optimistic that as Spirit crawls slowly through the dust towards McCool Hill, a tiny metallic chip will get lodged somewhere in the inner workings of the wheel and repair the open connection.
  We can but hope.
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Apr 3 2006, 11:40 AM
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QUOTE (climber @ Apr 3 2006, 11:21 AM)  Does any one have a recent figure of the REAL total cost of the mission by now ? I believe it's something like $900 including extensions. That means, for 1580 sols (the total of the two) - it's about $580k/sol Nominally, it would have been about $800m for 180 sols, $4.4M/sol Pathfinder at $280M for 84 sols was about $3.3m/sol (nominally, 30 sols, so just about $10m/sol) Viking, in total, with the estimated $3B tag today, would have been 1280 + 2244 sols = $851k/sol MER Remains a bargin  I seem to remember that they were expecting, thru technical or other problems, to lose one sol in three. Doug |
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Apr 3 2006, 12:02 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Apr 3 2006, 01:40 PM) Viking, in total, with the estimated $3B tag today, would have been 1280 + 2244 sols = $851k/sol MER Remains a bargin Doug  Well... please, don't forget that there were 4 spacecrafts involved as "Viking" for the USD 3bn : 2 landers PLUS 2 orbiters. Then, that's make only USD 425 k/sol for the Viking landers ! 
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SFJCody Sol 800 coming up Apr 1 2006, 08:16 PM
dilo Frankly, I am a little bit worried by Spirit mobil... Apr 1 2006, 08:38 PM
climber You're right, I do have a strange mood too.
An... Apr 3 2006, 07:32 AM djellison Good point - I'd totally forgotten to factor t... Apr 3 2006, 12:12 PM climber Well, pathfinder get Sojourner + Carl Sagan's ... Apr 3 2006, 12:25 PM djellison Sojourner was $25m over and above Pathfinder... Apr 3 2006, 12:58 PM mars loon I dont have the numbers at the moment,
but how ab... Apr 3 2006, 01:26 PM dilo Thanks for the statistics, climber et al.
In addit... Apr 3 2006, 07:56 PM djellison I have a different way to do the MER maths...
150... Apr 3 2006, 08:12 PM climber You're right, but you'd better like ... Apr 3 2006, 08:30 PM djellison I do
Doug Apr 3 2006, 08:43 PM |
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