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MASA’s Exoplanetary Mission |
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One Step Closer to Tomorrow |
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Budget & Timeline |
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Budget
* It should be noted that while attempts were made to account for short-term factors such as inflation over times covering initial events (construction, launch, etc.), the extreme transit time to completion makes accurate estimation of far-future events nearly impossible. Timeline
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Item |
Estimated Cost |
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Data Instruments |
$50 million |
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RF hardware (coding, modulation, amplifiers, etc.) |
$20 million |
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Collapsible Antennas |
$40 million |
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Propulsion Drive (hardware, fuel, etc) |
$200 million |
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Tracking Systems |
$150 million |
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Power Systems |
$500 million |
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Systems Hardening |
$250 million |
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Construction Will require extensive training, plus salaries |
$6 billion |
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Parts Transportation (to LEO construction site) Each shuttle trip approximately $120 million * 30 trips |
$3.6 billion |
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Research Costs Need ~5 years of research to complete development of propulsion systems, power systems, antennas, etc. |
$2 billion |
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Project Staff Salaries with a Junior/Senior engineer ratio of 2, the average salary would be $90,000/person/yr. Assuming a staff of 100 hundred to fully design and oversee contracting yields $9 million/yr over 20 years (to ensure satellite leaves the solar system) Keeping only 10 personnel after satellites exits the solar system through the end of the acceleration phase at an average salary of $110,000/yr over 154 years After the acceleration phase is complete and the satellite becomes dormant, keeping 2 ppl over 93,000 years is impractical as a full-time job. Therefore it is wiser to keep two people trained (in order to pass on specs/training to the next generations), but not make it full-time. Assuming 1 yr of training and a 40 yr rollover (20 yr staggering) results in 2 people every 20 years at an average of $110,000/person/yr. Upon receiving transmission, it is not unreasonable to assume 2 people and a computer could process the data, given the slow data rate over the 150 year lifetime of satellite, at an average salary of $140,000/person/yr |
$1.42 billion |
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Relay Satellite Since the relay is a simpler satellite, it is not unreasonable to assume ½ the cost of design and assembly of the initial satellite (based on current technology) |
~$3.1 billion |
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Overhead (35% to be safe) for example: |
$4.3 billion |
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Estimated Total |
~$15 billion |
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Year |
Major Event |
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2011 – 2015 |
Research and Development |
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2013 – 2022 |
Construction and Component Testing |
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2025 |
Fortuna I Launch |
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2025 – 98230 |
Travel to Epsilon Eridani |
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98231 |
Relay Satellite Launch |
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98240 |
Begin receiving data from Fortuna I |
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98280 |
Fortuna I termination |