I'm amazed it's that cheap. Really puts a different perspective on dollar amounts I read in headlines if look at them in terms of how many missions to titan it could have been.
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I'm sure it will be triple the price, but even then it is still cheap.
It's already triple the price. The original budget for the mission was on the order of a billion dollars, it was a New Frontiers mission and missions of that class aren't supposed to go over that limit.
I appreciate the science NASA manages to get done, but there is something seriously wrong with that agency's budgeting process and has been for decades.
Wow a launch date of 2028 is way closer than I had initial hope for!
Expect it to slip quite a bit. That seems very optimistic to me. I would have said at least eight years, plus delays.
Heck yeah!
I'd love to see new images from the surface of Titan.