it cost $ 82 million to make expendable 3.
how much did it cost to make expendable 3?
$ 82 million
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non-military commercial satellites began to be launched in volume in the 1970s and 1980s. launch services were supplied exclusively with launch vehicles developed originally for various cold war military programs, with their attendant cost structures.





















































"spacenews" journalist peter b. de selding has asserted that french government leadership, and the arianespace consortium "all but invented the commercial launch business in the 1980s" principally "by ignoring u.s. government assurances that the reusable u.s. space shuttle would make expendable launch vehicles like ariane obsolete."
space launch market competition