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Seems like we should build at least 11, if it’s 11 for the price of 2. There’s a lot of cosmos to look at.

• My_Name 4mo ago
  That's what they did with Hubble. Of course the CIA bought them to point downwards...
• fc417fc802 4mo ago
  I think it's better to take a production line approach the way musk did with spacex rockets. That would give us a recurring fixed budget, career stability, and stable pipelines for training and research. It's bound to be far more cost effective and to have more benefits for society as a whole. There's no good reason not to have a steady stream of space telescopes and rovers being sent out at a rate of once or twice per year.
• m4rtink 4mo ago
  With cost of launch to space finally coming down thanks to SpaceX & reusable rockets in general I would imagine this is how things will go much more often in the future. Not only mass production but possibly cheaper materials, more in-space prototyping & less expensive ground testing and paper studies before launch.
• WalterBright 4mo ago
  I'm sure it took $$$ for the software developed for the JWST, and it would cost $0 to make a copy.