This mission cost close to 1.3 billion Euros, at current market rates.
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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Sp...sked_questions
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The figure is barely half the price of a modern submarine, or three Airbus 380 jumbo jets, and covers a period of almost 20 years, from the start of the project in 1996 through the end of the mission in 2015.
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