Sentences with phrase «expensive flagship mission»
His whole program is now organized into production groups, in which each expensive flagship mission, such as Rosetta — which cost $ 750 million — has at least one cheaper spin - off.
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In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellite.