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> Building Webb has been difficult because its 6.5-meter mirror needs to unfurl itself once it reaches an orbit about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This is
by jonplackett 5y ago
> Building Webb has been difficult because its 6.5-meter mirror needs to unfurl itself once it reaches an orbit about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This is an exceedingly complex process, and there are more than 300 single points of failure
So in 2 years or so when starship is up and running, is it going to be orders of magnitude cheaper to build the thing you put in orbit as well as orders of magnitude cheaper to get it there?
- avaldes 5y agoThe JWST won't be "in orbit". The L2 Lagrange point technically orbits the sun and is far out of reach even for starship. There's currently no way to service the thing if something goes wrong.
- jonplackett 5y agoI thought Starship was meant to be able to go anywhere in the solar system?