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Earth observing mission for USD 12 million?
marsbug
post May 13 2012, 12:13 AM
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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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- marsbug   Earth observing mission for USD 12 million?   May 13 2012, 12:13 AM
- - stevesliva   "Not including launch costs." This: htt...   May 13 2012, 12:29 AM
- - tanjent   It's interesting to think about how that might...   May 13 2012, 02:35 AM
- - marsbug   I'd just like to point out: 'Swarm' wa...   May 15 2012, 11:05 PM

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