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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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[–] zoe 1 points 2 years ago

Luckely Nasa stopped building telescopes and outsourced manufacturing to private companies. Now Nasa just do contracts