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Why is that a bad decision? Would watching it help in any way?

• dylan604 5y ago
  I mean, SpaceX would have put 4 cameras on it. Also, pics, or it didn't happen.
  • ufmace 5y ago
    But they all would have broken due to "communication issues"
• asmithmd1 5y ago
  There are about 50 deployment actions that have to occur. If everything works perfectly, great. But if something hangs up or gets tangled, the people running the mission are blind when trying to debug the problem
• Mountain_Skies 5y ago
  To learn from what went wrong. Even if it cannot be corrected for the telescope, we can hopefully see enough about what went wrong to be able to prevent the same thing from happening on future complex satellites.