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Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by Rebelgecko on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:27PM (#24511990)
How many Hubbles could we have made if we didn't have to spend billions of dollars after it launched to fix manufacturing fuckups?
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Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by java-man on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:50PM (#24512473)
How many?
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Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by Rebelgecko on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:11PM (#24512595)
If the subsequent Hubbles cost as much as the first one was supposed to cost: about 10 Hubbles

If the subsequent Hubbles cost as much as the first one actually cost: about 0.5 Hubbles

It's not totally on apples to apples comparison. There would probably be some cost reductions if you made ten hubbles. On the other hand, some of the servicing missions upgrade or even added instruments, so I suppose you'd need to take that into account

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