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Andrew Nowicki wrote:
Dextre costs $154 million (US$).

Uh, no. The $154M is the cost of the *first phase* of the project, up to
Critical Design Review. Pre-CDR work is generally only a modest fraction
of the cost of a space project, especially one done in a hurry.

Its mass is about 1662kg. At
10000$/kg, launching Dextre into low Earth orbit will cost about
$17 million.

The only current US launcher you can maybe buy for $17M is a Pegasus,
which has about 1/4 of that payload. (Government projects are not allowed
to buy foreign launches.)
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