Space Policy Edition: JWST and the politics of mega-science (with Robert Smith)
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Is the Original Conception, That's Right?
There'd been efforts at the institute in the 19 ativs, actually looking at what might be feasible in terms of a successor to hobble. The difficulty with that conception is it just so extraordinarily expensive. And if you look at some of the power laws that astronomers were using at that point to predict the cost based on the diameter of the the primary mirror, you end up with literally astronomical numbers which we're just not going to work.
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