Space Policy Edition: Why are outer planets missions so expensive?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Cost Cap P I Class Mission
The cost of the mission is somewhere between new frontiers and a discovery. It came in at less than half the cost of just the development of galileo, much less cassini and other more expensive missions. One of the approaches is maybe something that can only really be done inapi class mode because everything pyramids up to one principal investigator.
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