[pepsi_junkie]

Zuma is believed to have cost around $3.5 billion to develop, according to the report. The satellite was funded through a process that received a lesser degree of oversight from Congress compared with similar national security-related satellites, industry officials said.

I am sure this is true because when people use black accounts to fund top secret projects, when something goes wrong they would immediately run to the press to explain that they used black accounts to fund the top secret project that just went wrong. Obviously.

[Ozark Tom]

Probably built two with 3.5 B development cost.