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Physics doesn’t make this impossible, but it’s _enormously_ expensive to get payload to L2.
by Arubis 5y ago
Physics doesn’t make this impossible, but it’s _enormously_ expensive to get payload to L2.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI am not familiar with the station keeping needed for maintaining an L2 orbit; would it be possible to use an Earth orbiting laser to apply photonic force against JWST's solar shield (turning it into a laser sail) to balance it "falling back" towards Earth without onboard propellant? My understanding is that it has a gravitational weighting towards Earth to prevent slipping away.
- vikingerik 5y agoIs it enormously expensive because of physics or because of bureaucracy and politics? Like, serious question: how much cost are the raw materials for the fuel and spacecraft/rocket, and how much are the costs like human labor and ground transportation to the launch site?