[edge17]

From the Lunar X prize teams we know that it nearly fits within a 30 million budget.

how so? from the lunar x teams I know, it is exactly the opposite.

[Sudarshan]

Well not that it fits exactly, but that is the order of magnitude of the expense. At least many videos of the glxp are saying so...

But hey only the winner gets to keep the cash. They are in it for the learning so that they can become part of the industry.

[edge17]

i think the cost of a booster is roughly 30m at best :)

[Sudarshan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Launcher_versions

These are GTO numbers... but the bots r tiny in Kgs I guess...

The glxp teams share the rockets i guess... The robots must be cheap at least in terms of materials used... in relative magnitude to the launch... I could be wrong. Engineering the bots does not get paid apart from the learnings and future opportunities...