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Jul 29, 2020 · NASA expects to spend approximately $2.7 billion on the Perseverance rover project. This number can sound large, even excessive, to some—but it’s a number that demands context. Let’s give it some. The Total Cost Includes Different Aspects of the Project.
- Cost of Perseverance
The Perseverance rover is projected to cost $2.7 billion...
- Cost of Perseverance
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- II. Past estimates of Mars mission costs
- III. Cost estimates based on past human missions
- IV. Cost of life support
- B. The cost of Mars life support
- VI. Conclusion
document gives some previously estimated costs for a human mission to Mars, cites the costs of earlier human missions such as Apollo and the International Space Station (ISS), and then derives an independent cost estimate using historical data. The cost of life support for the Mars mission is discussed.
Some of the previous estimates of the cost for a human mission to Mars are cited. They are largely consistent.
In general, the best way to estimate costs is by direct analogy with the past costs of similar missions. Most of the estimates given here were made using cost estimation methods that are based on past mission data. NASA’s human relevant human missions are the International Space Station (ISS), space shuttle, and Apollo.
The cost of ISS life support is estimated as a guide to the cost of life support for Mars.
The cost of the Mars life support system could easily be the same or even more than that of the ISS system The ISS life support can provide for more than the three or four US crew on ISS, so it could be easily scaled down to one half the ISS size. On the other hand, a Mars mission will require two life support systems both able to support the full ...
The best and most realistic way to estimate project cost is by using comparisons to earlier similar projects. Professional cost estimating models use parametric cost estimating relationships, which relate cost to measurable cost drivers such as mass, number of systems produced, and technical difficulty. The estimates produced by comparison to pas...
- Harry W. Jones
- 2016
The Perseverance rover is projected to cost $2.7 billion dollars, of which $2.2 billion was for spacecraft development, $243 million for launch services, and approximately $300 million for operations and scientific analysis for its 2-year primary mission.
- $243 million
- $2.2 billion
- $300 million
- $2.725 billion
Jul 9, 2016 · A recent estimate of the cost of the first human mission to Mars suggests that it could cost half a trillion dollars. This estimate is consistent with most past estimates. A similar cost number can easily be derived using mass-cost estimating factors based on the International Space Station (ISS) and other experience.
- Harry W. Jones
- 2016
Jul 20, 2016 · NASA’s next flagship Mars mission, the Mars 2020 rover, will cost $2.1 billion, more than originally estimated but also more capable, agency officials said.
Mar 18, 2019 · The mission's cost will increase by no more than 15%, Lori Glaze, NASA's acting director of planetary science, said at LPSC's annual "NASA night" today. But that sizable sum—which could run to hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on the agency's final calculations—will take money away from other projects, including small trims to ...
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Jul 29, 2020 · Mars 2020 cost $2.4 billion to develop, and the agency has budgeted $300 million for the mission’s first Martian year — 687 Earth days — of operations. That would bring the overall cost of...
