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Re:James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from fina... by bumby on Friday May 31, 2019 @08:49AM (#20060376)
For one, I think it has an astronomically (ha) high number of single-points-of-failure. A quick Google search reported 344.
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Re:James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from fina... by mikepurvis on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:54AM (#20061424)
One imagines that for every single point of failure they've got some kind of plan for how to still derive scientific value while operating it in a degraded state, similar to how Hubble was able to take pictures before service mission 1 and COSTAR.
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