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Fact boy covered it a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowU0QK0Pjs&ab_channel=Megaprojects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowU0QK0Pjs&ab_channel

Fact boy covered it a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowU0QK0Pjs&ab_channel=Megaprojects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CowU0QK0Pjs&ab_channel=Megap... From what i remember this project has been running since around the time of Hubble Still.... Can't wait for it to get up there, money and time well spent!

slownews45 5y ago
That's pretty amazing. A financial black hole. A cool project, but if you think of the thousands of folks who didn't get funding so this thing could gobble everything up - these projects really become crazy budget wise (SLS did the same path). I wish they would do pay for performance deals. We'll give you $4B if you put a telescope in space of X size that meets some basic specs. If you look at commercial side, space imaging (earth facing) has just exploded and the cost side has gotten very very good. So it's clear you can get optics and sensing into space for a lot less.
- swarnie_ 5y ago
  10bn in the scope of this joint project between the US, Europe and one other group (Canada or Japan?) is a rounding error over 20 years.
- redisman 5y ago
  This is the strength of NASA. They can do crazy one offs rather than having to build financially feasible platforms all the time