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In entire fairness, nothing we usually work on costs thousands of dollars per kilogram to send somebody to fix it, either.
by throwanem 5y ago
In entire fairness, nothing we usually work on costs thousands of dollars per kilogram to send somebody to fix it, either.
- rozab 5y agoJWST was never designed to be serviceable, because it's so far away[0]. It would probably be possibe to get a crew to L2 with our new SLS/Orion capability (with costly modifications)[1], but I don't think this was really anticipated back when JWST was designed. And once they get there, effecting a repair would be the equivalent of patching an executable with no source code, in production. [0]: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/forScientists/faqScientists.html#astronauts https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/forScientists/faqScientists.ht... [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-crew-segment-of-the-L2-Farside-mission-can-be-performed-using-a-single-SLS-along_fig4_233409383 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-crew-segment-of-the-...