25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work

Re:25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work by sandworm101 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:20PM (#29685531)

>> apparently once a generation

I hope not. This one is only going to last 10 years. Kepler also only lasted 10 years. Given the time it took to build it, I hope the JWST's replacement is already well into development. The reality is that space telescopes are launched every couple years without much fanfare. This just happens to be a very big and expensive one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes

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Re:25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work by gibolt on Saturday December 25, 2021 @05:56PM (#29687816)

Hopefully this restraint will become less significant for future missions. Starship should mean larger payload volume (less folding/structure required), far more payload capacity, far lower costs, and more frequent flights.

Refueling and refurbishment costs should become much more acceptable as viable approaches emerge due to dropping ticket cost to space.

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Re:25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work by rjn on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:33PM (#29685666)

only reason for 10 years is fuel, I think they are working on a robot to refuel it to increase the lifetime.

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Re:25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work by throwawayboise on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:17PM (#29688384)

What's a generation? Longer than 10 years certainly, but many people have kids by their early 20s if not before.

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Re:25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work by pvorb on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:26PM (#29688437)

I think typically a generation is around 30 years, but this changes over time. Currently it's higher in the western world, but it was shorter 100 years ago.

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