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India Goes to Mars for Less Than 'Gravity's' Budget

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Applied-SiddhÄnta dept.

Popeidol writes:

"In November, India took the next step in their space program by launching their Mangalyaan Mars orbiter. The orbiter won't arrive for a while yet, but they've managed to get some public attention for a different reason: the fact that the entire mission costs only 75 million dollars, substantially less than the budget for the hit movie 'Gravity.'

While the question of wages is bound to come up (it was only 15% of the budget of the project), I think we can all agree that bringing down the cost of interplanetary space travel to a level attainable by the ultra-rich is a good step forward."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:45PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:45PM (#1749)

    With dual two hundred watt class traveling wave tubes, I'd like to see it brought down to a level attainable by amsat.org. I'd be happy with just a geosync boost much less interplanetary. Rumor has it AO-40's little taxi ride was about five million bucks (admittedly awhile ago) so we're only about an order of magnitude away from the first ham radio satellite orbiting Mars...

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