> Instead of one JWST that takes multiple billions and decades to complete, we can have 10 or 20 less capable satellites built on the same budget These 10 or

> Instead of one JWST that takes multiple billions and decades to complete, we can have 10 or 20 less capable satellites built on the same budget These 10 or 20 telescopes can be as capable as the JWST. And not only because they could just be manufactured copies of the original. Remember the original budget for it was about 500M. A lot of the ballooning price was because they had extremely tight weight and size constraints (for example, the sunshide had to be insanely light, because almost all of the weight budget had already been allocated) By using Starship, weight can absolve many sins... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189345