** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

mrk said:
To infinity and beyond?


Infinite universe is interesting, it would also mean that all other types of universe are also true because to be infinite means every possible scenario can and will play out infinitely.
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Thanks for sharing, that was rather interesting!
 
Shows the sheer scale of the orbital launch tower and super heavy booster. Plus some great hi-res close up shots of said booster. This is Booster 3 though, so will only be used for ground testing.

 
The irony about JWT is they could make it without all the complicated folding design, since we're not far away from very wide SpaceX rockets. Even if it works, thats great and everything but you really want to get away from designs that have many points of failure, such as the unfolding. My idea was they could launch many smaller/cheaper telescopes to L2, many one a year or so, and have an array out there all pointing to the same location, beam back the data where we can compute it all together. The overall surface of said mirror may be even larger than JWT.
 
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