Cost

This projection is necessarily in flux.

All accounting is in Financial year 2020 UKP UK (£:pounds) indicated as FY20£.

The wiki and forum are at Concept Maturity Level 1 (Cocktain Napkin: Defined objectives and approaches, basic architecture concept) and developing toward a Concept Maturity Level 2 state (Initial feasibility: Physics works, ballpark mass and cost).

The current estimate - see the spreadsheet - is around FY20£M 500. This figure indicates the scale of investment required before the swarm is up to full power.

Cost to date (JAN 2020): FY20£ 75.