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Re:Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astro... by sbierwagen on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:42PM (#32229914)
You'd almost certainly want to launch several. You get one data point per half-orbit, when you're at opposite sides of the Sun. This is tolerable for the Earth, where an orbit is one year. But a full orbit out at 20AU takes eighty four years! Collecting a useful number of samples with one spacecraft would take centuries, while two spacecraft in opposition on the same orbit can measure parallax instantly.

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