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chulk90 on Sept 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilli...

Fuel cost increases at a square of the delta of force required. So the NASA project was actually more efficient.

cgjaro on Sept 25, 2014 [–]

No. Most of the costs are people costs as the article rightly explains, not fuel. Fuel is an extremely tiny fraction of the overall mission costs.

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