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Let's hope for a successful launch and deploy. But as a comment: I really don't like this kind of "all or nothing" projects. Its extremely risky and if it fail
by IsThisYou 5y ago
Let's hope for a successful launch and deploy.
But as a comment: I really don't like this kind of "all or nothing" projects. Its extremely risky and if it fails, 20 years would be lost and billions of dollars would be lost. I hope once Starship is ready, some billionaire buys a thousand telescopes, throws them into a Starship and flies them all over the solar system. Seriously, its almost 2022. Why do we still only have 1 telescope up there? Why aren't there 100 telescopes on the dark side of the moon? Why aren't there 1000 space probes on their way to leave the solar system?
- neffy 5y agoA journey of a thousand parsecs, begins with one launch.
- IsThisYou 5y agoBegs the question why we are STILL just begining, more than half a century later.
- toper-centage 5y agoNot sure what you mean. There are several telescopes out in orbit [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_telescope#/media/File%3ASpace_telescopes.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_telescope#/media/File%...
- IsThisYou 5y agoGoogled a few examples from your list, all of them are retired. Try to find orbiting telescopes that are actually active. And even if they were all active (which they are not) then it is still just one or two telescopes per EM band. It should be hundreds.