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How can we bring down the costs of large space telescopes? New research says they could be radically cheaper if their mission goals could be reconfigured to use off-the-shelf components. (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know how much of a factor the cost of the components themselves were in the ballooning costs of the JWST, but if COTS could represent a major savings in cost without compromising the performance of the spacecraft and risking catastrophic equipment failure in the harsh environment of deep space, I'm all for it.

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