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Re:SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch by ttobbaybbob on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:00PM (#35485600)
if this works out does there become a bottleneck in the world's ability to produce space-ready, useful things (satelites, telescopes, etc).

Its incredibly costly and complex to build things like the james webb telescope and that would be a great problem to have, but are there any measures of the demand for rocket capacity at given price points?

Re:SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch by tokipin on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:36PM (#35486643)
The reason we ended up with JWST and not telescopes with different profiles is because of high launch costs and size constraints. For example you wouldn't consider sending up a merely good hastily thrown together telescope when the launch cost is on the order of a billion dollars. With those constraints significantly reduced, we can employ a richer set of design profiles. I'm particularly interested in mass production approaches.