How much did Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer cost to build?
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer is a NASA Science Mission Directorate project that the NASA Office of Inspector General lists as 'LADEE' in its September 2015 audit of the joint cost and schedule confidence level process, with a baseline of August 2010, a project life-cycle cost of 263 million dollars and an actual or expected launch in September 2013. Its actual development cost was 188 million dollars against a 168 million baseline.
Published project estimate
$263 million
Cost basis: 2010
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Published project estimate2010
Project record
Opened or launched
NASA Office of Inspector General (IG-15-024)2013