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Re:Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megapr... by 7373737373 on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:50PM (#42679907)
Still, space based telescopes will probably not be able to compete with ground based (mega)projects for at least a decade, if not many

Operations and maintenance costs will still be much higher even if the hardware and deployment would become equally affordable

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Re:Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megapr... by fastball on Sunday January 12, 2025 @11:13PM (#42680015)
A constellation of low (relative) cost telescopes can definitely compete with a huge terrestrial telescope. Genuinely doubt it will take us a decade to get one.

Someone just needs to take a page from SpaceX's Starlink playbook and mass-produce telescope satellites. Or someone should pay SpaceX to do it.

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