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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by panick21_ on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:13PM (#29493753)
Disagree. Even with Atlas 5 this was not totally unreasonable.

> If the rocket blew up and took the satellite with it you're never getting approval to launch again.

That's not accurate.

Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by nexuist on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:21PM (#29518389)
This is all hypotheticals of course, but is it really likely that if a major satellite was lost NASA would be willing to bankroll the construction of a second identical one? I think the whole project would be scrapped and something else down the line would be approved to replace it. It certainly wouldn't be a quick turnaround time.