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> a decent $500m telescope with a moderate but not particularly ambitious scope So says someone on the Internet. We can make whatever claims we want if we don'
by wolverine876 4y ago
> a decent $500m telescope with a moderate but not particularly ambitious scope
So says someone on the Internet. We can make whatever claims we want if we don't have to back them up. That's the point of the JWST: gather evidence to back up claims.
- thrown_22 4y ago>That's the point of the JWST: gather evidence to back up claims. The original cost of James Webb was meant to be $500m and it was meant to launch in 2007. The actual cost was $9.7b and it launched in 2021 and still isn't fully operational. We don't know how to build things any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cost_and_schedule_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cos...
- wolverine876 4y agoWe built it - do you mean our budgeting isn't very good? Was it better before? Were NASA programs on budget historically?