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Your comment doesn't add anything to the conversation. But for anyone else that is actually interested: the cost of JWST is really not that extravagant consider
by frakkingcylons 5y ago
Your comment doesn't add anything to the conversation. But for anyone else that is actually interested: the cost of JWST is really not that extravagant considering how much more capability it provides compared to HST.
> Not even including its four space-shuttle servicing missions, Hubble cost $4 billion or $5 billion in today's dollars just to build and launch," Dressler notes. "Here we are, building a telescope that is almost seven times bigger, it is cryogenic, it is operating 1.5 million kilometres away, and it is costing the same amount as Hubble did, if not less. That is remarkable, and this is probably the biggest scale on which we will consider building such things in this country."
From this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/4671028a https://www.nature.com/articles/4671028a