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Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by ch4s3 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:45AM (#30073084)
That's the second mover advantage right?
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Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:59AM (#30073277)
That's part of it (with regards to rocket motor tech). The other is that the Soviet's designed the vehicle through a different process, versus the American's where it was design by committee (between NASA and the DoD [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_design_process

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