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Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by ehsankia on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:03PM (#30079913)
They're mostly limited by the size of the nose that goes on the rocket, which sadly hasn't advanced much in the past few decades. They were able to get a much larger mirror on there using a ton of clever engineering and folding, but the overall structure size is mostly limited by the payload size limit.
Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by gpt5 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:07PM (#30079952)
Starship would supposedly fit the unfolded mirror as a single piece. There has been discussion in actually using starship itself as the structure for a future telescope.