That's still pretty suspect to happen. In the end, unless every probe is going to the same very cold or very hot location there is enough variety across the solar system that makes common components difficult to baseline. Radiation tolerance is another variable that isn't needed at say Venus or Saturn but absolutely necessary at Jupiter even though it's kinda like Saturn in other respects like temperature.
With highly standardized hardware and software for deep space exploration, the costs of space probes can go down while reliability goes up.
I still tend to think that $300 million might be the current floor for a really effective deep space probe. We shall see.
>highly standardized hardware
That's still pretty suspect to happen. In the end, unless every probe is going to the same very cold or very hot location there is enough variety across the solar system that makes common components difficult to baseline. Radiation tolerance is another variable that isn't needed at say Venus or Saturn but absolutely necessary at Jupiter even though it's kinda like Saturn in other respects like temperature.