"The non-recurring cost for the spacecraft can be capped at $150M, the NRE for the ground system at
$50M, the bulk buy of twenty ESPA ride share slots of 200 kg each should cost less than $30M, recurringcost for 20 standard high-performance, high-reliability, single-string spacecraft as a bulk buy should be
no more than $30M per spacecraft. This turns the standard mathematics of a Flagship program on its
head, where launch is a trivial part of the cost, the DDT&E for spacecraft and operations through launch
are less than 1/3 the budget and over 2/3 of the budget and spending is on the science teams, science
instruments, and mission operations. The fleet health and maintenance and uplink/downlink support
for the armada, program level management and outreach should cost about $20M per year.
Each team is responsible for mission unique planning and analysis, instruments, team members, mission
support and data distribution and analysis within their ~$50M budgets."
Realne?
https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n4i364/release/1