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> Building Webb has been difficult because its 6.5-meter mirror needs to unfurl itself once it reaches an orbit about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This is an exceedingly complex process, and there are more than 300 single points of failure

So in 2 years or so when starship is up and running, is it going to be orders of magnitude cheaper to build the thing you put in orbit as well as orders of magnitude cheaper to get it there?

parent jonplackett 5 years ago

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