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Re:The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. by Tycho on Monday November 01, 2010 @10:20AM (#1856518)
Good effort though.

The budget was $5.2 billion. I wonder what the cost of an equivalent government program would have been.

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Re:The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. by ojbyrne on Monday November 01, 2010 @10:47AM (#1856629)
Actually there is a reasonably similar government-led project that originally cost $12 billion. Kind of a success though:

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/satcom_gp...

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