To demonstrate NASA's commitment to low-cost planetary exploration by finishing the mission with a total expenditure of $280 million, including the launch vehicle and mission operations. The Mars …

With a development time of only three years and a total cost of $265 million, Pathfinder was originally designed as a technology demonstration of a way to deliver an instrumented lander and a free …

It was a big step for the space agency and for Mars exploration in general. While the flagship Viking missions cost a whopping $7 billion (inflation-adjusted for 2020), Pathfinder was relatively low-cost at …

The Mars Pathfinder mission cost approximately $265 million including launch and operations. Development and construction of the lander cost $150 million and the rover about $25 million.

Dec 17, 2018 · The mission was developed at a cost of under $150 million in 3 years. Mars Pathfinder landed in Ares Vallis, Chryse Planitia, at 19 degrees 7'48" N and 33 degrees 13'12"W.

The Mars Pathfinder Mission is the second launch in the Discovery Program, a NASA initiative for small planetary missions with a maximum three year development cycle and a cost cap of $150M (FY92) …

Costing an average of $150 million per project, the Discovery shift to faster, cheaper, less-ambitious probes was prompted by the catastrophic failure in 1993 of the $1-billion Mars Observer mission. …

The project is required to have a cost of less than $150 Million, have a fast schedule (less than three years from new start to launch), and achieve a set of significant but focused engineering, science, …

innovative spacecraft launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from Earth on Dec. 4, 1996, to explore the surface of Mars. At a cost of about $300 million, Pathfinder was …

Dec 1, 2009 · The purpose of Pathfinder was to prove that the concept of "faster, better and cheaper" missions would work. Pathfinder only cost $150 million and was developed in under 3 years.