Well yes. But that's partly because the launch weight was restrained, and the launch cost high. It's a bit unituitive! The limits on launch weight means enormo

Well yes. But that's partly because the launch weight was restrained, and the launch cost high. It's a bit unituitive! The limits on launch weight means enormous costs to remove every single grma they can. This makes the launch cost go down in percent. If thy could just make it 50% heavier they could cut development costs by a lot. They could also build one much faster and allow it to fail constructively where you learn a bunch and then build number 2, 3, 4 with the things you learned. So now you have 3 telescopes instead of one. Launch cost changes everything.