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In Our Time: Science

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The Cost of Solar Orbiter

Bepi Colombo is taking quite a while to actually get there, but that is because it has got to slow up a little bit. The Solar Orbiter total mission cost is probably going to be something like one and a half billion euros. I think the European Space Agency science program is something like one or two pounds per person per year in the European ESA member states,. So in the grand scheme of things it is expensive, but it is not that expensive.

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