NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

Re:NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetim... by dahfizz on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:54PM (#29895007)

I am not confident that whatever caused JWT to take so long will be solved for the next project. NASA by its nature does not really benefit from "scale". Every important thing they do / produce is novel.

I am sure they have learned alot from building JWT, as they certainly learned a lot from building Hubble or the space shuttle. I don't think that knowledge necessarily transfers forwards to make the next project easier.

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Re:NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetim... by jimkleiber on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:27PM (#29899959)

Well, as you seem to have said, NASA doesn't seem too interested in scaling but rather in doing things that stretch the bounds. If their goal isn't to scale the previous project but to push past what people thought were possible with experiments, that seems OK to me.

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