How much did Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology cost to build?
DART, the Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology, was the NASA technology demonstration spacecraft built by Orbital Sciences Corporation under a May 2001 contract, launched on a Pegasus XL on 15 April 2005 to rendezvous autonomously with the MUBLCOM satellite, and lost in a collision with its target. The NASA public summary of the mishap investigation says the mission was launched on April 15, 2005, and cost 110 million dollars, against 47 million dollars proposed in 2001.
Final project cost
$110 million
Cost basis: 2005
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Final project cost2005
Project record
Opened or launched
NASA15 April 2005