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“What we have here isn’t a flagship rover or a multi‑billion‑dollar orbiter,” Mira began. “It’s a 12‑centimeter‑wide, 45‑gram cube that will hitch a ride on the outbound leg of the cargo launch and, once released near the asteroid belt, will perform a suite of observations that no other mission to date has attempted.”

– SONE‑059’s total program cost was $17 million , less than 2 % of the budget of a typical flagship mission, yet its scientific return rivaled that of the Dawn mission’s entire dataset in specific spectral regions. SONE-059