Re: Rover Missions cost breakdown anywhere? (Re: wondering...)

[Mike Dicenso]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Ool wrote:

> "gideon0223" > wrote in message ...
>
> > I dont believe that the rovers themselves didnt cost 400million but
> > that was the entire mission budget. As far as i know the current
> > numbers in the Nasa budget are for development of the rover hardware
> > only?...I could be wrong.
> > Also, i was under the impression that the fuel need for a "soft" moon
> > landing (one that doesnt "bounce" to a stop) and a martian mission
> > were relatively the same. In that you need fuel to slow down and
> > land on the moon where as at Mars you can aerobrake and save a good
> > deal of braking fuel. The Delta-V for Lunar and Mars missions
> > appears to be pretty close...wouldnt that meant the same amount of
> > fuel?
>
>
> I'm still looking for a site where they're listing just what cost what
> in the Mars Rover missions, from R&D to building to launching to oper-
> ating.
>
> Can anyone help me and provide a site link, because I can't find any.
> NASA's own Mars Rover site seems to contain no information about the
> costs, let alone details.


Did you actually ever bother to read the presskit at:


"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/merlandings.pdf"?


If you did, you'd have your answer.
-Mike

[Ool]

"Mike Dicenso" > wrote in message izona.edu...

> > I'm still looking for a site where they're listing just what cost what
> > in the Mars Rover missions, from R&D to building to launching to oper-
> > ating.

> Did you actually ever bother to read the presskit at:
> "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/merlandings.pdf"?

No because I a) didn't find it and b) had no idea it would contain
relevant information on the matter. It is only a tiny paragraph, af-
ter all and nothing a keyword search could have yielded. That's why I
was *asking* in here. Now I've read it and I thank you very much for
the information.


Hmm, about 80% of the costs were R&D. Figures, of course, for a
first. But that means that even if launch costs stayed the same we
could one day send five or six rovers up there. Or a really big one.

Does anyone know what a rover launch to the Moon would cost compared
to Mars? Just the launch, not the development. The same or less?



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