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Yeah this is my take too. Version N+1 of satellite internet breaks Version N of asteroid detection. The answer is clearly to build Version N+1 of the detection
by theptip 5y ago
Yeah this is my take too. Version N+1 of satellite internet breaks Version N of asteroid detection. The answer is clearly to build Version N+1 of the detection system using SpaceX to launch cheap satellites.
There was some discussion (Ars Technica maybe?) about why the Webb telescope took so long and was so expensive -- basically because heavy launch is (was?) so expensive, they needed to contort to fit everything in one payload (telescoping heat shield etc). But if you could do 10 launches for the same cost, you could iterate on the satellite much more easily, and the total cost to build it would be much less. (Waterfall vs. agile, to analogize with software development.)