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hparadiz | on: SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
A single one of these Starship's payloads can deliver a telescope approximately 20-25x larger than the James Webb Telescope.
origini | parent
Okaaayyy? We still were able to send James Webb up without a Starship?

Soooo?!

Its cheaper okay, we can send up bigger things good but the comment stated

"So it’s probably worth paying them a little respect."

It sounds like i get down to my knee for Space-X and i still don't get it

dingaling | root | parent | next
With Starship, it will cost about $70-90 to put 1kg of payload into orbit.

That will open vast new opportunities for space-based researh and services.

For example a university that has to pay at least $50k to launch a research cubesat today will be able to do it for about $2k.

hparadiz | root | parent
This is the most powerful rocket ever constructed. It has the largest possible payload. The James Webb is tiny compared to what is possible. No other rocket can do that. End of. Please stop. You are embarrassing yourself.
origini | root | parent
Ah I see a fanboy.

Okay I get it, discussion useless.

Just to be clear: James Webb was build and designed with nanometer aligned optical system, has to be cooled down while being at L2, can't be serviced and repaired and it was only enough money there to build it once and took 5 years of building and 25 years of planning.

A rocket is an engineering joke inc omparision.

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