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I think it's fair to say that with lower stakes you can definitely take less time on each telescope. The Webb is a miracle of engineering, but a lot of that mir

I think it's fair to say that with lower stakes you can definitely take less time on each telescope. The Webb is a miracle of engineering, but a lot of that miracle goes towards squeezing it into a pretty narrow fairing.

BbzzbB 5y ago
Sure, I'd also expect (as an outsider) that new iterations will be quicker from this new knowledge base and a 9m x 18m rocket payload, I'm just saying if there is a way to fix broken JWST I see no reason to not even try and wait out the next gen. They are not mutually exclusive.