I notice that the Odysseus commercial lander a US company just plonked on the Moon cost NASA a little over $100M.
By way of comparison, the Indian government's Chandrayaan-3 mission, the lander of which touched down in 2023, cost roughly $90M.
So private space can be more expensive than 100% government agency-run missions.
Charlie Stross /
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2024-02-23 11:39:34
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