Henhouse20
Henhouse20 t1_iy6y63g wrote
Reply to comment by Falconman21 in Space Force orders three GPS satellites for $744 million by Corbulo2526
$250 million for a GPS satellite is certainly not outrageous. The govt is getting a discount by buying multiple at a time and leveraging the high up front cost of the first ones that include the design cost and higher risk of proving out the constellation
Henhouse20 t1_j1t5tnb wrote
Reply to comment by SuddenlyLucid in Meet the amateur astronomer who found a lost NASA satellite by jarvedttudd
Not unique at all in the space industry. Everyone else does the same......their spacecraft typically all last longer than their design life