add in part of the launch cost.
add in additional data recovery costs - additional processing, computer time, programmer time, etc...
I wonder if any of the ground based antenna managed to get anything of the lost channel - perhaps if their data was added together some how, something might recovered, and the loss reduced.
Most of the individual spectral data for the components of Titan's landscape was lost. Maybe we'll be able to see what Titan is made of as a whole, but we'll have about zero idea as to its components, or how they function - we'll see them, make some guesses, but there will be no certainty...
Jim, these missions cost tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars. A shuttle costs around $5 billion.
Those funds respresent resources that could be used for other purposes. In particular, the NEO searchers in Europe are as underfunded as those in the US. At least in this case no one died.
Having spent those tens of millions, the causes for the loss of half the data need to be identified and corrected.
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Take cost of Hyugens, divide by two