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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 14 Sep 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ToughSF

      I'm reminded of the joke about "the small-minded man is given the power to teleport...and teleports across the road, to catch his bus" Launch costs re falling at an insane rate. Move the telescopes to orbit !https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1437808367922135049 …

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      ToughSF @ToughSf
      Multiple mega-constellations of satellites are planned to be launched into low to medium orbits. The light they reflect will increase total nighttime brightness by 10%, far above the IAU's light pollution red line for astronomical observations. https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/504/1/L40/6188393 … pic.twitter.com/RhCEESMabP
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 14 Sep 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Reductionist

      2/ this is because each telescope is a one-off, like every other bespoke jobs-pork-laden piece of crap that NASA touches make hubbles in factories, and launch one a week for a few yearshttps://twitter.com/idontwa86202030/status/1437845780799401984 …

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      Reductionist @idontwa86202030
      Replying to @MorlockP
      fully agree that that's the long term solution, but launch cost is a rounding error for space based astronomy Falcon Heavy being cheaper than Delta IV Heavy really doesn't matter here, when the payload is in the billions
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    3. Reductionist‏ @idontwa86202030 14 Sep 2021
      Replying to @MorlockP

      the DoD does that for KH11, and their cost is likely a good bit lower than what NASA paid for Hubble still on the order of billions though, so you simply can't afford that kind of production run, unless 10xing production drops cost per unit 90%, which is unlikely

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 14 Sep 2021
      Replying to @idontwa86202030

      >which is unlikely citation needed

      11:52 AM - 14 Sep 2021
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        2. Reductionist‏ @idontwa86202030 14 Sep 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          not in the field, just listening to people who are also a pretty general finding in manufacturing: going from 5 units built to 50 doesn't drop cost per unit 10x *ever* doubly so for space telescopes because most of the cost (about two thirds iirc) isn't actually building

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        3. Reductionist‏ @idontwa86202030 14 Sep 2021
          Replying to @idontwa86202030 @MorlockP

          the thing, but testing it six ways to sunday. that doesn't go away with scale, or at most very gradually. most of that isn't verifying a new design, but ensuring that all your parts are within spec and performing these are hyper precise optical instruments after all

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