Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade
by rasz on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:48AM
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>The Roman telescope is based on donated donated spy satellite of similar size and design. It will cost estimated $3.2 billion and that doesn't include the mirror and structure.
Is that using same company that is refurbishing $40m SSME engines at $420m per engine? 10x the cost of new one 24 years ago, or 20x the cost of whole Raptor launch? Or the company building $2.7b launch tower, a Launch Tower at twice the cost of Burj Khalifa?
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/sls-is-still-a...
New Hubble telescope wouldn't solve the Starlink problem. There are lots of smaller ground telescopes that have view blocked. We would need to launch a bunch of smaller, like 1m ones, to compensate. Also, there are a lot of larger telescopes that are only feasible on Earth. Good example is the 8.4m Rubin survey telescope which is only going to cost $700 million but would be lots of billions in space. That might fit in Starship but the Extremely Large Telescope won't.