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Estimated Total Capital Cost of the SPST, fully instrumented for two key programs:

Phase A preliminary design study (past expenditure, funded by SI) $ 49K
Phases B, C, & D construction, test and ship (OPP Science Section expense) 15,607K
Design, fabrication and installation of support tower (OPP Research Support expense) 1,434K
Cost of 200 m2 of equipped laboratory space at South Pole (part of SPSM expenditures) 1,940K
Ship 110 tons of material and equipment from Port Hueneme, CA, to South Pole (OPP Research Support expense) 951K
Support 6 workers at South Pole for 24 weeks during Phase E reassembly (OPP Research Support expense) 467K
Design and construct multichannel mm-wave CMB array receiver (to be proposed later) 1,947K
Construct submillimeter-wave bolometer array camera (to be proposed later) 6,381K

Total Capital Cost (year 2000 dollars)   =  $28,776K

 

 

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