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Someone will start pushing telescopes up there, with fast Internet in space why not have good telescopes up there as well. For cheap, not like Webb.
by permalac 3y ago
Someone will start pushing telescopes up there, with fast Internet in space why not have good telescopes up there as well. For cheap, not like Webb.
- Uehreka 3y agoI don’t get the impression that existing space-based telescopes are bottlenecked by bandwidth.
- ianburrell 3y agoWho is going to pay for the telescopes? Are the constellations going to fund them? Who is "someone"? I say that the constellations are responsible for messing up the sky and should pay for the fix. The cost of Webb wasn't the launch but the telescope itself. Folding it up to fit in rocket cost a lot extra but it would still have cost billions. The Hubble-sized Nancy Roman telescope, with much gifted by NRO, is going to cost $3 billion. The extremely large telescopes being built on the ground are almost as expensive. It might be possible to build and launch a bunch of say 1m telescopes cheaply. But "someone" would need to fund it since it isn't something that company would do.