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Solar Power Satellite Cost Estimate; NASA TM-58231; January 1981

Ronald J. Harron and Richard C. Wadle, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ·1981 · T3 government or agency report · XC02

Commissioned by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center; in-house report, no contract number printed. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

Identifiers: NASA TM-58231 the identifier this document is registered under

Published claims resting on this source

CLM-1035 In 1981 NASA priced a satellite at 11.5 billion 1977 dollars and the road to the first one at 102 billion, said it was not an official figure, and built the transport line on a launch price that works out at about 24 of those dollars per kilogram to orbit.

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