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Reply to comment by skucera in Meet the amateur astronomer who found a lost NASA satellite by jarvedttudd
It’s also a budget strategy thing. Using Spirit and Opportunity as examples. It’s much easier to stay within budget if they only put 90 days on paper. Once you have the hardware in place it becomes essentially automatic to get extra funding to keep operating. There’s just no sense placing the long term plan in the original proposal.
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