Re: Suitsat radio dead; 'glovesat' lives on

"Jorge R. Frank" <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Science per dollar" by what metric? Comparing Apollo to *all* the robotic
probes, US and Soviet, Apollo got about 90% of the money spent on lunar
exploration in the 60's, but returned 90% or greater of all the surface
samples, photographs, etc.

ISTM that the cost of ISS + Suitsat was near-as-dammit the same as ISS
alone. Therefore a (briefly) working satellite was built and launched for
essentially zero dollars.

Trying to do something to see whether it can be done is very good science.
Doing it for approximately zero dollars is good economics. I'm not sure, but
I think they would have had to chuck the thing out sooner or later anyway.


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