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How much did Global Precipitation Measurement cost to build?

Global Precipitation Measurement is a NASA Science Mission Directorate project that the NASA Office of Inspector General lists as 'GPM' in its September 2015 audit of the joint cost and schedule confidence level process, with a baseline of October 2011, a project life-cycle cost of 961 million dollars and an actual or expected launch in February 2014. Its actual development cost was 484 million dollars against a 519 million baseline.

Published project estimate

$961 million

Cost basis: 2011

This image depicts the GPM Core Observatory satellite orbiting Earth, with several other satellites from the GPM Constellation in the background. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission that will set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space, providing the next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours.
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Basis of the published figure

Published project estimate2011
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Project record

2014

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