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My understanding is that most off the money went into designing and extensively testing one off components that work reliable in extreme environments. Engineer

by ddalex 5y ago

My understanding is that most off the money went into designing and extensively testing one off components that work reliable in extreme environments. Engineers are expensive

madengr 5y ago
guenthert 5y ago
Hmmh, I'd think since much of JWST is i) one-off and ii) state-of-the-art, a lot of it was actually designed by PhD students, which are cheap.