As I said in my thread, Beagle 2 cost around $45 million plus launch costs. In response, you angrily replied that I neglected to include costs for the following:

"propulsion, TT&C, electrical, attitude control, and navigation systems to handle the trip from Earth to Mars"

My response is:

assuming that "launch costs" isn't broad enough to include terms you tacked on such as "propulsion" how much ELSE (besides "launch costs") was saved by the piggy-backing?

As a sidenote, just because it costs a certain amount to launch from the USA does NOT mean that it costs the Europeans as much. Otherwise, why would the Europeans (and Russians and Chinese) have devoured the corrupt U.S. space industry's marketshare? To see how much the USA has already slipped, see:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/launch