What was NASA’s Landsat 8 life-cycle cost baseline?
Landsat 8 is a NASA Science Mission Directorate project that the NASA Office of Inspector General lists as 'LDCM' in its September 2015 audit of the joint cost and schedule confidence level process, with a baseline of December 2010, a project life-cycle cost of 942 million dollars and an actual or expected launch in February 2013. Its actual development cost was 503 million dollars against a 588 million baseline.
Published project estimate
$942 million
Cost basis: 2010
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabPublic domain
Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Published project estimate2010
Project record
Opened or launched
NASA Office of Inspector General (IG-15-024)2013