• jmcs
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    1 year ago

    They can be made even cheaper if you reconfigure the mission goals to be taking blurry pictures of the moon.

  • zoe @infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Luckely Nasa stopped building telescopes and outsourced manufacturing to private companies. Now Nasa just do contracts

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    1 year ago

    I don’t know how much of a factor the cost of the components themselves were in the ballooning costs of the JWST, but if COTS could represent a major savings in cost without compromising the performance of the spacecraft and risking catastrophic equipment failure in the harsh environment of deep space, I’m all for it.