> If you were designing the JWST today, you would probably also put onboard a GPU. That could be programmed to do some of the scientific work in space That's j

> If you were designing the JWST today, you would probably also put onboard a GPU. That could be programmed to do some of the scientific work in space That's just not how science is done in astronomy. People want the raw data to analyze it for decades in different contexts. There's not much that can be done onboard that would make you not want to copy that data back.