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I think they mean reliability of the satellite. The JWST is going to be parked at a Lagrange point that's going to put it out of reach of most everything. At th
by ckozlowski 5y ago
I think they mean reliability of the satellite. The JWST is going to be parked at a Lagrange point that's going to put it out of reach of most everything. At the time it was conceived, robotic servicing was even further off. A crewed mission was right out. Costs went far up in part because unlike Hubble, servicing was going to be virtually impossible.
- anticensor 5y agoStarship has a sufficient delta-v to service it.
- qubitcoder 5y agoYes, but Starship is a prototype at the moment. And it'd require the Super Heavy to even reach orbit, which will soon begin testing [0]. Additionally, the engineering requirements for long-term life support are significantly more involved than the Dragon capsule. There's also the testing and certification process for crewed-missions; in non-Elon time, this is likely several years, conservatively speaking [1]. (I'd love to be proven wrong, however!). [0] https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-rollout-video https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-ro... [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/five-reasons-why-nas...