There's a lot more to keeping a mission running than employing a bunch of people to analyze the data. The "daily operation" is extremely expensive. One of the major costs is DSN (Deep Space Network) connection, over which the data is downlinked from the satellite -- that costs a lot of money. Plus you operations staff to monitor the satellite, people to maintain the operations computers... there's a lot of work goes into it.
Aside: PhD Astrophysicists earn *much* more than $52,500! Where I work, that's what BSc Astrophysicists get! Also, cost-per-person is typically four-times their salary (or so my boss keeps saying...) So I make it 13 or 14 PhD Astrophysicists to run the $4.2m mission.
That is, of course, unless a light-bulb needs changing...
Google makes stacks of cash from selling advertising . How happy do you think those advertisers would be if Google started offering a totally ad-free search page? Ultimately Google has to make money.
Whatever steps 1, 2, 3,..., n-2, n-1 are, step n is always PROFIT!!!
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Sorry, man. Didn't mean to dishearten you! You might wanna check out monster.com.... ;)
There's a lot more to keeping a mission running than employing a bunch of people to analyze the data. The "daily operation" is extremely expensive. One of the major costs is DSN (Deep Space Network) connection, over which the data is downlinked from the satellite -- that costs a lot of money. Plus you operations staff to monitor the satellite, people to maintain the operations computers... there's a lot of work goes into it.
Aside: PhD Astrophysicists earn *much* more than $52,500! Where I work, that's what BSc Astrophysicists get! Also, cost-per-person is typically four-times their salary (or so my boss keeps saying...) So I make it 13 or 14 PhD Astrophysicists to run the $4.2m mission.
That is, of course, unless a light-bulb needs changing...
They should've taken the SECOND exit onto Coble Dene, not the first! That's going to take them right out of their way!
Google makes stacks of cash from selling advertising . How happy do you think those advertisers would be if Google started offering a totally ad-free search page? Ultimately Google has to make money. Whatever steps 1, 2, 3, ..., n-2, n-1 are, step n is always PROFIT!!!