Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa

Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by java-man on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:49PM (#24512468)

And I really fail to see why we build ONE James Webb. What of there is anomaly at launch? Why not build two? If one fails, we have another. If both launch, we have two telescopes! (Well, I don't know how difficult to have to instruments bobbing around L2 point).

Most of the price of JW is research and development anyway. It will not be 2x the price, it will be much less, so even if we ignore the possible scientific output, from a purely financial perspective two would be a bargain.

I just don't understand why we build one JW, and one Hubble, but we can afford 12 KHs and god know how many other spy telescopes...

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Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by assap_cocky on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:14PM (#24512610)

First rule in government spending: Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

If only this was true.

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Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by UI_at_80x24 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:58PM (#24512845)

A relevant Contact quote, on the topic of Space?

nicely done.

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Re:Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa by trentnix on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:00AM (#24513414)

Wanna take a ride?

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