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After 25 years in the making and now waiting to be launched, technology of course has advanced enough for JWST to be "obsolete" in that sense by the time it's o
by caiobegotti 6y ago
After 25 years in the making and now waiting to be launched, technology of course has advanced enough for JWST to be "obsolete" in that sense by the time it's operational. However, new space telescopes take so long to be operational but they still give us amazing data... even if what they give us is peanuts from old dusty tech it's still worth it. Anyways, JWST is going to be incredible... heck, even after so many years Hubble still produce a ridiculous amount of good data and research and it was designed in the 70s! Can you imagine if launching was cheap and we had a constant flow of budget for space telescopes and we could launch a new improvement every year (after an initial ramp-up of, say, 10 years)? Unfortunately launch costs and cadence has been a major blocker so far to the things you asked about IMHO.
- m4rtink 6y agoLaunch cost have been going down recently, so hopefully that won't be a problem in the future.
- dotancohen 6y agoJust wait for Starship. It promises all that, and the possibility of an eight-meter aperture.