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We should be launching a new JWST every year. And we could, for a tiny fraction of the cost of a single large DOD project. Hopefully Starship will make these on
by ramesh31 5y ago
We should be launching a new JWST every year. And we could, for a tiny fraction of the cost of a single large DOD project. Hopefully Starship will make these once-in-a-generation level missions more commonplace, so we're not losing our minds over every tiny thing that can go wrong with this thing.
- FourHand451 5y agoAre you implying that yearly launches would reduce cost through economies of scale or something? Or just that JWST costs less than the F-35 program? While having a Starship sized fairing to put JWST in for launch would probably reduce some packaging complexity, I'm not sure the launch vehicle is the major source of cost in this case.